Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] [be] [adj] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It feels like I 've been asleep for a long , long time . |
| 2 | I 've been asleep for an hour . |
| 3 | Anyway , I 've been sober for a couple of days now and it changes your perspective a bit . |
| 4 | Certainly I I 've been aware for a while now that there have been problems at Kingslane general in terms of of break ins erm not just specifically with the launderette but with also the community room er there and certainly I I 've been engaged in making one or two suggestions about how security measures could be improved . |
| 5 | I have been convinced for a long time that people could not love , accept or respect me for the person I am , only for the amazing amount of exercise I can do . |
| 6 | The fact is , over the past few months , I have been responsible for a series of small errors in the carrying out of my duties . |
| 7 | I think I have been dead for a long time now . |
| 8 | I have been dead for a long time and by day I circle the huge air above the hills and by night I sleep in the quiet rock , as quiet as the rock , and the little worms mean consolation as they eat me . |
| 9 | You 've been asleep for a long time . ’ |
| 10 | At the very least , the discipline of being involved in some form of training will help counteract the feeling of lethargy that creeps over many people who have been unemployed for a long while — a characteristic which is very counterproductive in an interview . |
| 11 | If you have been unemployed for a while seek retraining as a first step to a new , positive attitude . |
| 12 | and , and if she 's already scared of his temper and they 've not even lived together , well they have lived together for quite a while actually so I mean it 's not like they do n't know each other but once they 're married and they 've been married for a couple of years I reckon , and he starts thinking of her more as a possession sort of thing I can , I can really imagine |
| 13 | And they say I ca n't remember it just happened so quick that I ca n't remember , they have been unconscious for a , it may be just a split second , it 's affected the brain , they are concussed . |
| 14 | When asked why she allowed the computer so to dominate in this way , she replied ‘ It 's the first time they have been quiet for a whole week ! ’ , reflecting the second cause in the list above . |
| 15 | they have been excited for a bit of money and end up with nowt , sending you letters |