Example sentences of "been [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ On a machine that no nome has been on for fifteen thousand years ? ’ said Masklin . |
| 2 | It 's er in the report that we produced , most of the families are in fact single parent families , most of them are on Social Security benefits and have been on for considerable periods of time , but there are a number of people who are in employment or who have had periods of employment , but they are in low paid jobs , so when you 're talking about an income of one hundred pounds a week , with the sort of housing costs there are and other costs , then there simply is n't enough money to go round . |
| 3 | She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night . |
| 4 | Until recently , CHP systems — combined heat and power , also called co-generation — have been only for large hotels and have meant high capital outlays . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 7 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 8 | I was n't afraid of losing my boyfriend while I was in prison , because I 've seen people who 've been in for two years and their boyfriends still come and see them . |
| 9 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 10 | you know , it is just so frustrating , you know and er some of these kids he said and the language they use , one girl came in , she had n't been in for three or four days , he had n't met her and he said hello you must be such and such er |
| 11 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Have you been in for this Guess the Scores , have you won anything before ? |
| 14 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 15 | ‘ Friday nights because we have n't been together for four nights , Sundays because we know there are another four ahead of us , and … why Saturdays ? ’ |
| 16 | We 've been together for five years , Lexy and I — she practically holds that company together . |
| 17 | They 'd been together for eighteen months or more , and she had no one else . |
| 18 | They 've been together for fourteen years , they met at school . |
| 19 | Lindsey and Pete had started talking about having a baby when she was fourteen , and did so the following year : Pete and me had been together for eleven months and loved each other more than words could say . |
| 20 | And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said . |
| 21 | Sinead had a hard time at school because she was a newcomer in a class which had been together for two years , and some of her fellow pupils knew her recent history . |
| 22 | Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot . |
| 23 | I told him about my uncle after we 'd been together for six months and , though he was outraged , I persuaded him not to confront Joe or tell anyone . |
| 24 | They had been together for six months but fell out when he told her he wanted to see more of his friends . |
| 25 | Despite their 20-year age gap , the couple have now been together for eight years and run a pub in Amersham , Bucks . |
| 26 | 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 ! |
| 27 | Having been together for ten years , disbanding twice and then leaving prolific label 4AD , ME went to America to chance it lucky . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | My client and his girlfriend have been together for some six year , they have three children aged six , five and four . |