Example sentences of "they have been for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Father and son exchanged looks , in better temper with each other than they 'd been for years . |
| 2 | They were both drunker than they 'd been for years . |
| 3 | They came up to view Heidi 's riding display then I went back with them and Vicki and Malcolm diverted from Barford on the Sunday where they 'd been for lunch and picked me up Sunday afternoon the sort of following weekend . |
| 4 | They 'd been for a meal and they came to the flat and they rung us to say they were there . |
| 5 | Cos they 'd been for a meal on the way as well ! |
| 6 | Some of Britain 's rivers are now cleaner than they 've been for years . |
| 7 | He and his wife , Nellie , live in a Home in an outer city suburb where they 've been for fifteen months . |
| 8 | Perhaps they 've been for their walk , this one looks as if he 's so old he can hardly ! |
| 9 | Surely they 've been for the last four years and they must or do they just keep it at eighty one then they go to ninety ? |
| 10 | But if China really is now backing peace and free elections , the signs are more hopeful than they 've been for a decade . |
| 11 | And that 's moved them no less than three places up the second division table , they 're higher than I think they 've been for many a long day . |
| 12 | It was in his experience difficult for most people to prove conclusively exactly where they had been for any forty-eight-hour period , members of the Metropolitan police force always excepted , and this was going to make his life very difficult . |
| 13 | They were unfortunate in that batting conditions for them were not as favourable as they had been for the West Indians . |
| 14 | Ipswich were as lethargic at the start of the second half as they had been for the majority of the first and on the hour , in an attempt to liven them up , Lyall brought off Milton and Goddard to introduce Palmer and Johnson . |
| 15 | They were located above the centre of the road instead of being drawn out to one side , as they had been for the trams . |
| 16 | They had been for some ten minutes locked in a close embrace , the length of their bodies pressed together . |
| 17 | But the South African Rugby Board and the South African Rugby Union continued to get bogged down , as they had been for the last three years , even with the help of intermediaries of the stature of Nelson Mandela , in their attempts to reach accord and form one , united body for rugby football in their country . |
| 18 | Twenty-five years to the day since England beat West Germany 4–2 in extra time at Wembley to win the World Cup for the first time and , so far , only time in a glorious ( etc , etc — the back pages that morning were awash , as they had been for days , with nostalgia and breast-beating and rush-of-blood reminiscence ) footballing history ; the apotheosis of the game , which , according to one writer at the time , ‘ lives like an extra pulse in the people of industrial England . ’ |
| 19 | Most superior buildings also sustained their Palladian principles , but they became less formal : for example , the central salon , the grand reception room of the Palladian house ( Fig. 14 ) , lost some of its ceremonial identity and might even be occupied by a billiard table ; women were no longer debarred from the library , as they had been for much of the previous century . |
| 20 | Maybe they had been for old times the old times that had never really existed . |
| 21 | One afternoon after they had been for a swim together , Sycorax said , as Ariel took her on her back again , grunting for the old woman had grown so much heavier , it seemed , since her immersion , ‘ You are having the red man 's child . ’ |
| 22 | But for Nietzsche " art as a whole " and " the Hellenic sphere " were simply not separable , any more than they had been for Winckelmann . |
| 23 | It would discourage profit and perhaps take us back to that nadir of Labour party policy when Shirley Williams was able to say with some pride that profit levels were the lowest they had been for years . |
| 24 | Treasurer Keating had used high interest rates as his main weapon in the struggle to reduce the country 's current account deficit , but they had been for blamed for contributing to the loss of business confidence . |
| 25 | On the contrary , such dispositions of honores and patronage were , as they had been for Charles 's predecessors , crucial instruments of royal power in the regions . |
| 26 | The 1480s show an average comparable with the 1430s , although this figure is probably depressed by the bad years of 1482 and 1483 in the latter year prices were higher than they had been for a century , and wages did not rise proportionately . |
| 27 | If they 're offered , as they have been for years and years ever since the industrial revolution , things that have been cynically designed for the working classes , is it surprising that we have a nation of people who are supposed to have no visual standards ? |
| 28 | ‘ Present values are lower than they have been for some time , and are sticking . |
| 29 | ‘ They are fiercer than they have been for years , right back to what they used to be , ’ he said . |
| 30 | Couples is a naturally high flighter of the ball and that , together with his length , is an advantage at Augusta , particularly since everyone seems to agree that the greens are firmer than they have been for years . |