Example sentences of "[pron] have [been] [adv prt] a long " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least I do n't mean that — not a good show for you , I know — but frankly when you 've been down a long time it is a good show to see someone from home and get all the news . |
| 2 | but it cuts across , no there there comes a point where the of this world say oh am I allowed to do this , am I allowed to do that if you 've been here for more than three years right and it 's particularly prevalent in Scotland , oh are we allowed to do that , oh I did n't know and that 's old that is. old to a certain extent you know , she 's been around longer than has and been around but influenced by who 's been around a long time you see that 's where we get it , you see we do n't get the initiative coming in that area we get we get the oh Christ , bloody hell let's shove that one out the way that 's a national account . |
| 3 | ‘ We 've been out a long while already . |
| 4 | They 've been out a long time colleagues , seventeen weeks . |
| 5 | It 's been around a long time , as they say ? |