Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 2 | I done it to I done it to Russell one night messing around and he told the girls in work I 'd been away for the weekend and he 'd had somebody else there honest to God he did ! |
| 3 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 4 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been away for a week and I had about 70 messgaes to read . |
| 7 | No , cos I 've been away for a couple of days . |
| 8 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 9 | Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India . |
| 10 | Now please tell me if I 'm keeping you , I know I 've been here for a very long time |
| 11 | God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’ |
| 12 | Is she aware that when my hon. Friend the Member for Workington ( Mr. Campbell-Savours ) and I visited Moscow last week and questioned Russian officials about food aid , we found stacked away in a third-floor warehouse what we were told was the whole British contribution of beef to Moscow , which had been there for a month ? |
| 13 | The city has changed so much that anyone who has been away for a couple of years could be forgiven for thinking that he arrived in a time machine , not an airliner . |
| 14 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 15 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
| 16 | ‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy . |
| 17 | They demanded that everybody get out of their way so they could launch their boat , while people who 'd been there for the best of the tide were already bringing their craft out . |
| 18 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 19 | ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’ |
| 20 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |
| 21 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 22 | She had been inside for a day . |
| 23 | The residents themselves recognised the move for some of the older , frailer people would be more difficult and those who had been there for the least time had agreed to go , he said . |
| 24 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 25 | The hon. Gentleman must forgive me : I want to be fair to other hon. Members who have been here for a long time . |
| 26 | Others who have been home for a few months come in feeling as if their brains are becoming addled and wanting something to do . |
| 27 | She 's been away for the last week or so |
| 28 | ‘ … she 's been here for the best part of a week and you 're no further forward . ’ |
| 29 | She 's been there for the last month . |
| 30 | The man who 's been here for the past three weekends , always at the same table , always alone and always gazing at you with those incredible dark eyes of his . ’ |