Example sentences of "been [prep] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been after a pair for ages . |
| 2 | And I 've been after a zither for a long long time |
| 3 | erm It 's sometimes a little bit daunting to go to a school , particularly if you happen perhaps to have hated school yourself and not to have been near a school for a long time , got away from it as soon as you could when you were younger . |
| 4 | It really smells like I have n't been near a bath for a month . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've been refusing that man a cheque book for months but he just went inside and someone from senior management , who has n't been behind a counter for years , just hands one over without a thought . ’ |
| 6 | Most do not qualify for redundancy pay , pensions , sick pay or national-insurance benefits until they have been with a firm for two years . |
| 7 | Apart from a few weddings she had n't been inside a church for a long while . |
| 8 | Joan 's husband suffers from motor neurone disease , is very weak and has been in a wheelchair for the last nine years , almost totally dependent on her for physical care . |
| 9 | Oh she 's been in a wheelchair for years . |
| 10 | ‘ Valerie and I have been in a relationship for five years now . |
| 11 | In addition , among those for whom a staff member responded only one in twelve of those admitted during the last year of the life was felt to have had a good quality of life during that time compared with nearly half ( 46 per cent ) of those who had been in a home for a year or more . |
| 12 | He had had a spell about two years previously when he had been in a wheel-chair for a few weeks , but had managed to get himself out of it and stagger around with two tripods . |
| 13 | He 's been in a camp for three months . |
| 14 | The biggest loss I recorded was 11oz in a 9lb 5oz bream which had been in a keepnet for nine hours . |
| 15 | Yet again , if slightly more hardcore fans have n't already got ‘ Injected With A Poison ’ ( mix credited to Digital Orgasm , daft since they made the record in the first place ) or Sonz Of A Loop Da Loop Era , then they must have been in a coma for months . |
| 16 | Suzanne Calvert has been in a coma for five months since being given the drug at a party by Army deserter Sean O'Brian . |
| 17 | A court ruled two weeks ago that Tony , 21 , who has been in a coma for 3½ years , could have his feeding tube removed . |
| 18 | Mr Munby was summing up on day two of a historic test case that will decide the fate of Tony , who has been in a coma for three and a half years . |
| 19 | As anyone who has n't been in a coma for the last ten years knows as much anyway , why bother ? |
| 20 | Tony has been in a coma for almost four years . |
| 21 | Yorkshire Health Authority is seeking legal clarification on the treatment of a victim of the Hillsborough disaster who has been in a coma for three years , he will never recover and his parents want him to be allowed to die . |
| 22 | Yorkshire Health Authority is seeking legal clarification on the treatment of a victim of the Hillsborough disaster who has been in a coma for three years , he will never recover and his parents want him to be allowed to die . |
| 23 | Let me give you one or two specific examples , I 'm always interested , having been in a college for thirty five years in adult education , I 'm interested in the primary schools and I must admit I get more job satisfaction the moment we go in a primary schools than ever I had when I was in the college itself ! |
| 24 | In one recent group one woman had not been in a lift for twenty years . |
| 25 | ( People who had been in a hospital for all the year before they died have been excluded from these comparisons . ) |
| 26 | Because I had n't been in a band for so long , there were plenty to choose from … |
| 27 | He ate and drank simply and , although he enjoyed the theatre , he had not been to a play for twenty years . |
| 28 | Crowds of people , including many who had n't been to a church for years , came to hear him . |
| 29 | ‘ I 'm afraid everything 's not as I would like it to be here — you know , of course that we 've been without a Marshal for two months now — not that I ca n't cope after twenty years service in this village , but even so — ’ |
| 30 | This was attributable mainly to an increase in the number of branches , from 158 in 1953–54 to 189 in 1957–58 ; losses in Bedfordshire ( 15 branches down to 11 ) and the Fenland ( 23 down to 15 ) , both of which had been without a tutor-organiser for much of the period , were more than offset by gains everywhere else , notably in Essex ( 27 branches up to 40 ) and Suffolk ( 14 up to 32 ) . |