Example sentences of "we have been [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
| 2 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 3 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 5 | We are , we are debt free , we 've been debt for a long time . |
| 6 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 7 | We 've been friends for years . |
| 8 | She 's a twenty-seven year-old female , just the same age as me , her name is Kelly Adam , she 's a television camerawoman , and we 've been friends for years . |
| 9 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 10 | We 've been pals for a long time . |
| 11 | We had been lovers for a year or so . |
| 12 | We had been colleagues for years and , as I say , I was having difficulty focussing . |