Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [adv] for the " 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 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 5 | God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’ |
| 6 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She 's been away for the last week or so |
| 12 | ‘ … she 's been here for the best part of a week and you 're no further forward . ’ |
| 13 | She 's been there for the last month . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | Because we 've been here for the discussion . |
| 16 | They 've been together for the past six years — which she cites as one very good reason why she did n't fall for Craig McLachlan while playing his leading lady . |
| 17 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
| 18 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 19 | Well it 's been there for the past two weeks but now he 's gone to l get a house . |