Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I wo n't spare a minute 's thought for the fact that Piers has n't been around for the entire day , and lord only knows what he 's getting up to with Nicole . |
| 2 | I 'll come following you He d yeah it was odd when Frank said that cos apparently what happened , he just sort of started saying that he did n't think that Frank had really been there for him and that he was being a bit sort of selfish and stuff which I mean maybe he has been but the thing is if you know if Frank 's making this massive effort to like fit in and meet new people and stuff then |
| 3 | One song reveals the damaging influence on their minds of their sojourn in London : ‘ Soccer Fan ’ is a peon of praise to Everton 's midfield cruncher , Norman Whiteside. l CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT Get Ahead ( Mercury ) You can tell that Curiosity Killed The Cat have n't been around for some time . |
| 4 | Auntie Mavis has only been out for five to ten minutes twice cos of her knee . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 7 | I did n't know Julia had n't been in for a long while . |
| 8 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 9 | His father has n't been here for years . |
| 10 | Despite the fact that homoeopathy has now been around for close on two hundred years , very little research has been carried out either to attempt to understand how it works , or to prove that it does work . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Low Birk Hatt Farm has always been home for my family . |
| 13 | If the builders of this artificial paradise had not been around for several millennia — as Alex Bannen seemed to think — how come the flora and fauna had n't run riot and completely ruined the environment ? |
| 14 | Mere existence had not been enough for him , in the Epilogue 's diagnosis ; he had always wanted something more . |
| 15 | ‘ Mere existence had never been enough for him ; he had always wanted something more . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ Old Mr Fiddle has not been there for some time , Rose , ’ said Dagmar from the door . |
| 17 | It is n't as if the chances had n't been there for Leeds to win away last term : Oldham 2–0 up with 5 minutes to go , Sheff . |
| 18 | Perhaps not as bad as Buff , because the animal had only been there for a second or two and I had told them it was a robot . |
| 19 | Despite their 20-year age gap , the couple have now been together for eight years and run a pub in Amersham , Bucks . |
| 20 | Yeah of course you can , I mean my mum have n't been out for weeks |
| 21 | A reader called to say she had a postcard dated 1910 which showed the fire with a notice saying : ‘ This fire has n't been out for over 200 years . ’ |