Example sentences of "have been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty eight and and presumably many of the people who are perhaps seventy drawing pensions , they may not have even paid in thirty years themselves , I mean they may be many of them may not have been around for that period of time . |
| 2 | He must have been around for years but I did n't know what his name was . |
| 3 | If anything , it has even more justified my decision to leave Coventry where I was manager and join Chelsea — I certainly could not have been away for a month if I 'd stayed at Highfield Road . |
| 4 | He was exaggerating , of course , but all the same , she must have been away for longer than she had intended . |
| 5 | And he thinks the fact that they could have been away for more than two weeks now may have been noticed by neighbours , family or friends . |
| 6 | It could not have been otherwise for the attainment of the required goal of the perfect human being was possible by no other means . |
| 7 | Normally , she would have been up for several hours and written a couple of thousand words . |
| 8 | She wished he could have been here for Christmas . |
| 9 | I should have been here for you a long time ago . |
| 10 | ‘ If it were obvious , we would n't have been here for five years trying to find it , and Paula would still be … . |
| 11 | All the time yes , apart from say about six weeks , used to come in in the winter to repair the do maintenance on the dredger and then the old harbourmaster would say right , we should have been here for six weeks , he come after a month , he 'd say , paint the cover the rust up he said and bugger off out again . |
| 12 | She and Tom must have been here for quite a long time , then . |
| 13 | The Russian did not think he could have been dead for long . |
| 14 | If he had testified the alternatives would have been either for the judge to cross-examine him or for his evidence to remain untested and unchallenged . |
| 15 | That … kiss … would have been truly for you , no one else . ’ |
| 16 | Wiping them might have been enough for most people — but not for somebody who was trying to do card tricks . ’ |
| 17 | In Sweden teachers collected 10 000 slide-rules , which would have been enough for students starting in 1983 and 1984 . |
| 18 | Jackie had had that all done and then I would have been in for my cup of tea . |
| 19 | Telepathic communication , for us still the domain of science fiction or fringe experimentation , may be part of a dolphin 's daily life , and may have been so for centuries . |
| 20 | Assuming the car had gone missing at the same ti me as Angela Morgan , it might have been there for over a week ; it had only been found that evening by a uniformed constable who was keeping his eyes open . |
| 21 | How long Joe had been in the marsh she did not know , but it was a very lonely spot , and he could have been there for hours and hours — perhaps even all through the night , thought Cheryl . |
| 22 | It , too , must have been there for years . |
| 23 | It must have been there for at least an hour . |
| 24 | The males , now about 18 inches long , may have spent only three years in the rivers ; the females in the higher reaches may have been there for as many as eight or nine and are three times as long . |
| 25 | It must have been there for years , abandoned to the plunderers , an illicit plaything for the local children , a welcome shelter for the occasional vagrant like the seventy-year-old alcoholic who had stumbled on the body . |
| 26 | If there had been a man up the tree on the night of Mary Connon 's death — and a conversation with Kathy Grogan earlier that morning had convinced him , though her interpretation of the written word might be naively literal , there was nothing wrong with her senses , then that man could have been there for only one of three purposes . |
| 27 | They must have been there for years . ’ |
| 28 | Yet the county council admits the waste could have been there for anything up to 20 years . |
| 29 | It 's their intention to leave the boat station there , but as a boat hiring station only , and to let rent that to somebody , not to have boat building enterprises , not to have a car park , not to have a chandlery and so on which was put there by the person whose who used to own it , and we will recoup all of that money from renting that boat station so it can be run as a boat hiring station again , and from three or four of the moorings that are will have been there for a long time , with proper permission . |