Example sentences of "been [adv] for [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night . |
| 2 | looks nice , no burnt or anything , and I says ee it 's lovely is it , I said alright , would been down for this morning like and I says ooh come on then do n't bother when you get home starting making anything I says just say , let's ask for steak pies , so I says er can we have er two steak and kidney pies please ? , she said I 'm sorry we do n't , there is n't any kidney an all , I 'm glad there is n't I did n't want , well I 'd of eaten 'em like but I 'd rather have them without |
| 3 | Or if members of a group are not familiar with each other , no mutual aid may occur until they have been together for some time . |
| 4 | The couple live apart and although they have been together for some time , you sense Clint 's fingers have been burned by his previous bad experiences . |
| 5 | Once you are fully better , and have been so for some time , you can risk the occasional slice of white bread or a sliver of cake . |
| 6 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
| 7 | Official signs for a cycle path connecting Baird Road , Ratho Station , to the minor road from Ratho to Newbridge have been up for some time . |
| 8 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
| 9 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 10 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 11 | He 's been out for some time . |
| 12 | I 've been here for some time . |
| 13 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
| 14 | There can be reasons why people make a claim for asylum after they have been here for some time and we consider all cases properly . |
| 15 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 16 | You have n't been here for last week did you ? |
| 17 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
| 18 | One song reveals the damaging influence on their minds of their sojourn in London : ‘ Soccer Fan ’ is a peon of praise to Everton 's midfield cruncher , Norman Whiteside. l CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT Get Ahead ( Mercury ) You can tell that Curiosity Killed The Cat have n't been around for some time . |
| 19 | On the lighter side , the Cessna 195B has been around for some time , having been auctioned at Duxford in April 1990 and , although remaining in the UK since then , has only just been registered . |
| 20 | Axil 's existing compatibles are the $13,000 HWS-S210 which has been around for some time , the $17,000 HWS-S310 model 3.0 and the $23,500 HWS-S310 model 4.1 which are due next quarter . |
| 21 | Computer Users of Europe ( CUE ) , a user group that 's been around for some time on an informal basis , has gone official : it has drafted a constitution and has a steering committee working on making it formal . |
| 22 | These are all approaches which have been around for some time — in the case of the perennial philosophy a very long time — and while , no doubt , they have a great deal to contribute , it is surely probable that the impulse for any paradigm shift will come from an unseen direction . |
| 23 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 24 | The shareware package Formgen has been around for some time now and is a proven system for designing forms . |
| 25 | Repeat name and date at every opportunity ; the sort of people who live in the East End like to know you 've been around for some time . |
| 26 | See look at all those cross pieces , they look as they 've been there for some purpose , you know ? |
| 27 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 28 | The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining . |
| 29 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 30 | Brooke Alexander , of course , and Josh Baer , Ronald Feldman , Pat Hearn and Feature have been there for some time . |