Example sentences of "[verb] be [pron] [noun] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having successfully struck out on his own in 1962 , he has since been involved with the South East London Society , and has been its treasurer for the past two years . |
| 2 | ‘ Jason has been my boss for the last year , and as far as I was concerned a reasonably good one . |
| 3 | It has been our policy for the past 12 years to limit investigation of such patients to upper gastrointestinal endoscopy , with endoscopic small bowel biopsy , and barium enema . |
| 4 | The craft has been his hobby for the past years , and in that time he has seen it grow immensely in popularity . |
| 5 | A further indication of the skill and care with which the arrangements were made was our accommodation for the night . |
| 6 | Nanny stood on the bridge that spanned the ornamental lake and looked back at the beautiful house that had been her home for the last thirty years . |
| 7 | He dragged himself from the clump of twitch-grass that had been his hiding-place for the last half hour , and shivering violently , set off on foot to the east . |
| 8 | Thank you Miss is your resolution for the . |
| 9 | A tall ship which starred in the TV series the Onedin Line , has bid farewell to the docks which have been her home for the past ten years . |
| 10 | Three months pregnant , yesterday Shelley Williams lost her baby , today she returned from hospital what 's been her home for the last two months , a tent pitched on a grass verge outside the home of her boyfriend 's parents . |