Example sentences of "have been [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Posh have been up for grabs since last year and chairman John Devaney , a property magnate and ex-Oxford director , will sell if the price is right . |
| 2 | The posters have been up for weeks … when the powerboat circus comes to town … the streets and squares close down … everyone makes for the river … every bridge … and every balcony becomes a grandstand … a ring side seat for the big race … |
| 3 | Some of the titles currently optioned have been around for years , but the prospects are tantalising . |
| 4 | Doc Martens BOOTS have been around for years . |
| 5 | I have been here for decades untold in this court , never leaving it except in my mind , ranging to far stars yet never truly experiencing those elsewheres . |
| 6 | ‘ But some of them have been here for ages , ’ she remonstrated . |
| 7 | ‘ The Arbuthnots have been here for generations . |
| 8 | These have been here for months |
| 9 | It seems as though we have been away for years . |
| 10 | Several dogs have been in for boosters and there 's a bitch to be spayed tomorrow . |
| 11 | They are there ; they have been there for years . |
| 12 | Rocks look more natural if you bed them into the gravel slightly , as if they have been there for years . |
| 13 | that have been there for years have n't they ? |
| 14 | No footings were laid — the walls were built directly on the patio paving stones ; they have been there for years and I thought there was little chance of them subsiding . |