Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
| 2 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 3 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 4 | It has certainly been around for a hundred years , and it is probably the most vital of aspect of life as we know it today . |
| 5 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 6 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 7 | She had clearly been out for the evening . |
| 8 | No , Lindsey told herself , as she showered and slipped into a warm towelling robe , it had actually been over for a long time . |
| 9 | How do you know this is love , your prose side whispers like a sceptical lawyer , it 's only been around for a few weeks , a few months . |