Example sentences of "'ve [be] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , sometimes a dessert is called for — as at a dinner party — or just wanted — because you 've been good for so long ! |
| 2 | Anyway , I 've been sober for a couple of days now and it changes your perspective a bit . |
| 3 | They 've been available for two weeks at 350 Oxfam shops . |
| 4 | I 've been impotent for as long as I can remember . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been awake for over an hour , ’ she said , sitting on the edge of the bed , when he came back into the bedroom . |
| 6 | I 've been grateful for Jessie having my key because er I 've locked myself out one or two |
| 7 | You very humbly describe yourself as an absent Pro-Chancellor , but you have taken a considerable interest in this university over the years , and we 've been grateful for it . |
| 8 | I 'm 46 , Ruth is 45 , we 've been married for 24 years . |
| 9 | They 've been married for 11 years and they 've always been so happy . |
| 10 | I 've been married for sixteen years . |
| 11 | We 've been married for seven years and , though I 'm only 31 , I 'm beginning to worry — has he changed his mind ? |
| 12 | I 'm 21 , I 've been married for four years and I have two children aged three and one . |
| 13 | I 've been married for 16 years to a man I really love . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've been married for sixty years . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've been married for sixty years . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ We always wanted to sponsor a guide dog and by the time you 've been married for 50 years you 've got everything you need and there 's no point in getting presents you do n't really need , ’ said Mr Lea . |
| 17 | and , and if she 's already scared of his temper and they 've not even lived together , well they have lived together for quite a while actually so I mean it 's not like they do n't know each other but once they 're married and they 've been married for a couple of years I reckon , and he starts thinking of her more as a possession sort of thing I can , I can really imagine |
| 18 | ‘ Because , ’ he said , mopping his plate industriously with a piece of bread , ‘ when you 've been asleep for — no , I do n't want to know — you 're bound to feel a bit peckish when you wake up . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It feels like I 've been asleep for a long , long time . |
| 20 | I 've been asleep for an hour . |
| 21 | You 've been asleep for a long time . ’ |
| 22 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 23 | It frightens me , sir — I 've been frightened for more than a week now , and I just ca n't go on any longer . ’ |
| 24 | The , the thing is that I 've been concerned for some time when it 's finally helped , f f found for next month , because |
| 25 | Certainly I I 've been aware for a while now that there have been problems at Kingslane general in terms of of break ins erm not just specifically with the launderette but with also the community room er there and certainly I I 've been engaged in making one or two suggestions about how security measures could be improved . |
| 26 | I 've been bad for two weeks |
| 27 | They 've been responsible for making Joan Collins a sex symbol at fifty-three . |
| 28 | Over the centuries , the Superintendents who 've been responsible for looking after the garden , have each played a major part in it 's growth and development . |
| 29 | As one who was teethed on the works of George Gaylord Simpson , I 've been bemused for several years by the supposed ‘ revisionist ’ implications of punctuation . |
| 30 | ‘ We 've been worried for years about their tendency to see Britain as a soft market in which to make a killing . ’ |