Example sentences of "been [adv prt] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't know Julia had n't been in for a long while . |
| 2 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 3 | No , Lindsey told herself , as she showered and slipped into a warm towelling robe , it had actually been over for a long time . |
| 4 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
| 5 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 6 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 7 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 8 | By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six . |
| 9 | I mean surely that is a subject that 's been around for a hundred years ? |
| 10 | It has certainly been around for a hundred years , and it is probably the most vital of aspect of life as we know it today . |
| 11 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 12 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 13 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 14 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 15 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 16 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |
| 17 | The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems . |
| 18 | Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers . |
| 19 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
| 20 | Is this a new disease , something we 've discovered recently , or has it been around for a long time ? |
| 21 | Europe has been around for a few thousand years and to be the first European under ten seconds … well ! |
| 22 | How do you know this is love , your prose side whispers like a sceptical lawyer , it 's only been around for a few weeks , a few months . |
| 23 | litre turbocharged engine , a revamped version of the Ford diesel unit which has been around for a few years . |