Example sentences of "been [prep] [noun] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tidal experts agreed that the body could not have been off Pilsey Island for more than 24 hours . |
| 2 | General Philippe Morillon has set up headquarters in the town , which has been under Serb siege for 11 months , according to Laurens Jolles , of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees . |
| 3 | But one woman who should have been there could n't attend the ceremony — because she 's been under house arrest for the past four years . |
| 4 | The black population has been under police surveillance for a long time . |
| 5 | One of its Knesset members is in prison for stealing from its own coffers , another has been charged with cooking the books and Mr Deri himself has been under police investigation for suspected financial irregularities for more than two years . |
| 6 | His mother has been with Douglas Reyburn for twenty years , now working as a spinner in the mid-flat . |
| 7 | Hugh was 62 years ' old and had been with Douglas Reyburn for 28 years . |
| 8 | Ian has been with Wood-Way engineering for nine years , and was previously employed by Weir Pumps . |
| 9 | Margaret has been with Lyle Carpets for ten years . |
| 10 | Er , been with C U for er , six and a half years as well . |
| 11 | Er , John work for Management Services , I 'm a Systems Analyst and been with C U for just over three years now . |
| 12 | Been with C U for about two years last September , er started management training , came straight from University , erm , tt several section section head erm , starting with with various instructional outside they call it process control . |
| 13 | ‘ You can get them in Helsinki now , but at that time … anyway I had only been in New York for a couple of days and I only had the clothes I had taken with me . |
| 14 | A hardy , naturally polled breed of a type which has been in southwest Scotland for centuries , the Galloway is capable of growing a thick , shaggy coat of long , rain-shedding hairs over its thick , soft , mossy undercoat to protect itself in the cold , damp climate of the region . |
| 15 | Although the conclusions of the seven-year inquiry dismissed claims of active US complicity in Mengele 's escape , they acknowledged that Mengele had been in US custody for at least six weeks after the end of Second World War before being routinely released . |
| 16 | A Soviet Deputy Defence Minister , General Varrenikov , has been in Addis Ababa for the past week . |
| 17 | I stayed with Plowman , the Consul , and his wife : they had been in Addis Ababa for the coronation and had invited me to visit them at Harar . |
| 18 | And then er a and then after they had been in hay ricks for a long time they were brought up to the farm and built into a bigger stack , a bigger thing . |
| 19 | Fat Albert , as it 's affectionally called , has been in RAF service for twenty five years . |
| 20 | Coton , last season 's choice by his fellow professionals as the country 's top goalkeeper , has been in England squads for two years but is still awaiting a first full cap . |
| 21 | He was the man in charge of H3 , and he spoke with his émigré parents ' guttural Central European accent although he had been born in Ipswich , and he had been in H area for 26 years . |
| 22 | I remember I was once experimenting with a gauze — it had been in La Scala for a hundred years and was full of dust . |
| 23 | MEGADETH have revealed they 've been in group therapy for the past three years . |
| 24 | I have n't been in office systems for all that time . |
| 25 | As he had already been interviewed four times and been in police custody for over 24 hours , the expectation would be that a solicitor might well consider that , at least for that evening , enough was enough and that he ought to advise his client not to answer further questions … . |
| 26 | I 've been in police custody for the last thirty-six hours . |
| 27 | Love reveals that Yorkshire have already been in Cape Town for a week and that their England A captain , Martyn Moxon , will be flying in from Australia to join them this weekend . |
| 28 | The wild card in the race , Ross Perot , sent out word that he had no regrets about his longshot bid for the White House , which has been in Republican hands for 12 years . |
| 29 | The sperm whales , which are deep sea creatures , have been in Scapa Flow for a month and experts are convinced they are facing starvation and could become stranded . |
| 30 | We 've got a number of good pension funds that ordinary working people can join , but the issue that has come about since compulsory competitive tendering privatization is those members that 've been in pension funds for maybe twenty , twenty five years now they 're out on the open job market with the wonderful privatized world that we live in , with a free market , and they ca n't afford to make adequate pension provision for themselves . |