Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [adv prt] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 2 | THE problems of keeping walls in mortuary and undertakers ' premises clean and hygienic , while still keeping them attractive for the staff , is one which has been around for many years . |
| 3 | Axil 's existing compatibles are the $13,000 HWS-S210 which has been around for some time , the $17,000 HWS-S310 model 3.0 and the $23,500 HWS-S310 model 4.1 which are due next quarter . |
| 4 | These are all approaches which have been around for some time — in the case of the perennial philosophy a very long time — and while , no doubt , they have a great deal to contribute , it is surely probable that the impulse for any paradigm shift will come from an unseen direction . |
| 5 | Repeat name and date at every opportunity ; the sort of people who live in the East End like to know you 've been around for some time . |
| 6 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 7 | When you have been up for half an hour on a normal working day , how do you feel ? |
| 8 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 9 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 10 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 11 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 12 | He 's been out for some time . |