Example sentences of "[noun] [vb mod] have been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and Tom must have been here for quite a long time , then . |
| 2 | Yet the county council admits the waste could have been there for anything up to 20 years . |
| 3 | If he had testified the alternatives would have been either for the judge to cross-examine him or for his evidence to remain untested and unchallenged . |
| 4 | If there had been a man up the tree on the night of Mary Connon 's death — and a conversation with Kathy Grogan earlier that morning had convinced him , though her interpretation of the written word might be naively literal , there was nothing wrong with her senses , then that man could have been there for only one of three purposes . |
| 5 | The males , now about 18 inches long , may have spent only three years in the rivers ; the females in the higher reaches may have been there for as many as eight or nine and are three times as long . |