Example sentences of "been [noun] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thorn confirmed Draper 's resignation yesterday , but denied it was a major problem as ‘ he 's been part time for years . ’ |
| 2 | BK told us this had been base camp for early attempts on Kanchenjunga from the south . |
| 3 | This week by way of preparation , its been weight training for Ian Smith down in the Kingsholm gym . |
| 4 | She was a nice old soul , but she had once been Sister Hope for twenty years , as she never ceased to inform us . |
| 5 | Around the time of the bombing , Megrahi had been security chief for Libyan Arab Airlines and Fhimah had been the airline 's station officer in Malta . |
| 6 | A member of Reading & Leighton Park Canoe Club , he has been Publicity Officer for the Devizes to Westminster Race , Treasurer of the Marathon Committee and Southern Region Secretary . |
| 7 | Beth Macdougall ( below ) has left Hodder , where she has been publicity director for the fiction and paperback lists . |
| 8 | This should not be particularly surprising since the main element has been price support for commodities such as grain and sugar which are produced principally in the more favoured farming areas . |
| 9 | He had been sales director for the major British manufacturer and had left two or three years ago when they were absorbed into a large industrial conglomerate . |
| 10 | There may well have been planning permission for the activities in question in those cases . |
| 11 | His doubts circled around two elements of Estabrook 's story : the assassin himself ( this Mr Pie , hired out of nowhere ) and more particularly , around the man who 'd introduced Estabrook to his hired hand : Chant , whose death had been media fodder for the past several days . |
| 12 | London had been grit grey for months , and Jay fought the sunless skies with the blade of keen memory . |
| 13 | For more than 20 years John Glendinning has been chess correspondent for the Scotsman newspaper . |
| 14 | Thursdays had always been bank day for Bill . |
| 15 | The ale could have been sea water for all he tasted . |
| 16 | Sacko , a UN Development Programme ( UNDP ) official serving in the Central African Republic , had been Finance Minister for six months before resigning in August 1987 in protest at the unwillingness of Traoré 's government to support him in a drive against corruption [ see pp. 36085-86 ] . |
| 17 | My father had his allotment at Bugmore and felt himself fortunate , for prior to becoming gardens the area had been filter beds for the City 's Sewage Works . |
| 18 | By the end of that he 'll have been Blades boss for nearly nine years ! |
| 19 | I 've been family member for twelve years and must have seen a thousand children , and of those , barely fifty had both their natural mother and father ! |
| 20 | My club control a water I have been carp fishing for the last three seasons and have just imposed a hair rig ban . |