Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] been at [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He seemed to be suggesting that once Balbinder had been at Cedars for a while , he might be capable of re-entering mainstream education at middle school transfer . |
| 2 | His father wrote a regular monthly letter and , after Frank had been at Rowden for two years , one of the letters told him that his grandmother Blanche Arbuthnot had died , and left him all her money and her house in Meath . |
| 3 | ‘ Some of the breeding monkeys had been at Shamrock for seven or eight years . |
| 4 | The pupil had been at Magdalen for a year , and then left to join the Army . |
| 5 | Albert and his young assistant had been at loggerheads for years now . |
| 6 | Joe Chapman has been at Grendon for fourteen years . |
| 7 | Tehran , Baghdad — Andropulos again playing both sides of the fence , Iran and Iraq had been at war for six years now — Tripoli , Damascus , Beirut , Athens , Rome , East Berlin , New York and London . |
| 8 | The ship has been at Rosyth for some weeks and work should have started on 1 March . |
| 9 | US Budweiser and the firm in Ceske Budejovice have been at loggerheads for almost a century , exchanging writs over the use of the Budweiser name . |
| 10 | Rachel had been at OBEX for two years and was now senior sister in charge of the busy factory medical centre . |