Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] have [been] [adv] for " in BNC.

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1 And then again , if I 've been shut away in the Prison of Hostages , I expect I 've been away for quite a time .
2 and they were such a load of dicks when we first met , you know , and they 're just like trying to impress all the time and now I mean you 've been here for , what , a year and , year and a bit and
3 Keith Sutton , prosecuting on behalf of Sefton Council 's Public Protection Department , told the court there was sufficient oil in the insect to suggest it had been there for some time .
4 Now please tell me if I 'm keeping you , I know I 've been here for a very long time
5 Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour .
6 She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years .
7 Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains .
8 ‘ I would think it 's been here for several days , sir .
9 His body was cold-I think he 'd been there for hours . ’
10 Er although most people think it 's been there for a long time , it has n't .
11 Masklin said we 've been here for thousands of years .
12 Some refugees in the embassy gardens said they had been there for days , but had not boarded the sealed refugee trains travelling through East Germany to Bavaria .
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