Example sentences of "'ve be [adv prt] for " in BNC.

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1 ( Lazing 's highly recommended if you 've been up for the 8.30am aerobics .
2 ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly .
3 I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy .
4 ‘ It 's not that early — I 've been up for ages , and I 'm leaving in a few minutes .
5 Yeah , you 're gon na have one in a minute I 've been up for ages !
6 So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it !
7 No , I 've been up for an hour !
8 You 've been up for weeks now , have n't you ?
9 How come the Europeans accept musicians who 've been around for a while , but we British just pour scorn on them as has-beens ?
10 The German Dynacord company remain relatively unheralded within the modern music industry , even though they 've been around for over forty years , in fact since the very inception of electronic amplification .
11 But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work .
12 Now , I 've been around for a lot of years and I know a bad girl when I see one .
13 Thank you erm I hardly ever comment on these but I just , I was n't sure what because quite often these things go under another guise , but there are a number of schemes on the drawing board for investigation as you all know and Mr will know some of those they 've been around for , for some years .
14 Er it 's partly using some questions that 've been around for a very long time but there 're some subtle variations and some new ones added in , okay ?
15 Repeat name and date at every opportunity ; the sort of people who live in the East End like to know you 've been around for some time .
16 they and er they 've been around for centuries of course but er erm there 's all sorts of myths about them some of which are half-truths and some which un-truths .
17 Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year .
18 She 's act she er they 've been down for a for a flying visit , I think , th they like to fly and fly back because it gets th the fre used to the freedom .
19 It 's ages since we 've been out for a drink together , ’ Laura enthused .
20 " You 've been out for hours . "
21 That is just called pentate it is not called E M penta any more equally you do n't have sec butile alcohol turk turt butile alcohol they 've been out for ten years !
22 They 've been out for fifteen minutes .
23 By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six .
24 I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously .
25 I might , for Phil , for Phil to wind down , he 'll come in , say we 've been out for a meal or whatever , he 'll come in and he 'll sit down in front of the television .
26 You 've been off for a while .
27 how long you 've been off for , to unemployment
28 I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and
29 Do they have to produce a doctor 's note say look , I 've been off for
30 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 .
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