Example sentences of "been [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | looks nice , no burnt or anything , and I says ee it 's lovely is it , I said alright , would been down for this morning like and I says ooh come on then do n't bother when you get home starting making anything I says just say , let's ask for steak pies , so I says er can we have er two steak and kidney pies please ? , she said I 'm sorry we do n't , there is n't any kidney an all , I 'm glad there is n't I did n't want , well I 'd of eaten 'em like but I 'd rather have them without |
| 2 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 3 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 4 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 5 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 6 | Have you been in for this Guess the Scores , have you won anything before ? |
| 7 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 8 | Or if members of a group are not familiar with each other , no mutual aid may occur until they have been together for some time . |
| 9 | The couple live apart and although they have been together for some time , you sense Clint 's fingers have been burned by his previous bad experiences . |
| 10 | My client and his girlfriend have been together for some six year , they have three children aged six , five and four . |
| 11 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 12 | A landmark on the Waxholme/Withernsea road is the old Black Mill , and has been so for many generations . |
| 13 | It is made from M. spicata , but there are many other mints with various distinct aromas and flavours — garden mint is the most commonly used and has been so for many centuries . |
| 14 | Once you are fully better , and have been so for some time , you can risk the occasional slice of white bread or a sliver of cake . |
| 15 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |
| 16 | On 30 June Colonel Wilkinson was at his desk catching up on policy matters after having been away for several days visiting units in the Liverpool area and attending an Army Catering Corps Promotion Selection Board held at Exeter . |
| 17 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 18 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 19 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 20 | How has it been for yourself , obviously you 've been here with your children , your husband 's been away for more than a month , in Iraq , there must have been er terrible thoughts going through you mind at certain times ? |
| 21 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |
| 22 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 23 | The lights have been off for several months , bringing a protest from the RAFA . |
| 24 | When you have been up for half an hour on a normal working day , how do you feel ? |
| 25 | Official signs for a cycle path connecting Baird Road , Ratho Station , to the minor road from Ratho to Newbridge have been up for some time . |
| 26 | The building was not built in ninety one , whether there 's any relevance or not , where they 're trying to prove that the building has been up for some time , they 'd say , it 's not , that building was put up this year . |
| 27 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 28 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 29 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 30 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |