Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [been] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |
| 3 | Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time . |
| 4 | A good deal gives me the feeling that I have been for a nice seven-day trip to the Bahamas . ’ |
| 5 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 6 | These maxims , many of them reflecting nothing more than common sense , and taken from the recorded experience of the past , were to be found mainly in two works : the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus , written in the first century AD , and the Stratagemata of Frontinus , composed in the same century by a man who had been for a short while Roman governor of Britain . |
| 7 | McNab , who hit his first goal of the season , said : ‘ The second half was as poor as we have been for a long time but recent performances have been magnificent . |
| 8 | And glory in the 1,000 Guineas may well be a lot more than just a warming winter thought because Dead Certain beat as competitive a field as there has been for a juvenile filly 's race for many years . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend will note that German interest rates and ours are closer than they have been for a long time . |
| 10 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 11 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |
| 12 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 13 | ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time . |
| 14 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 15 | Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant . |