Example sentences of "[pron] have been [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 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
4 | You had to appear in front of them , well this , I 'd been off for a week and the old Harbourmaster old he sent for me and he said erm , you can start work tomorrow as I . |
5 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’ |
8 | I 've been away for a week and I had about 70 messgaes to read . |
9 | No , cos I 've been away for a couple of days . |
10 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
11 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
12 | No , I 've been up for an hour ! |
13 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | Now please tell me if I 'm keeping you , I know I 've been here for a very long time |
16 | God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’ |
17 | Now , I 've been around for a lot of years and I know a bad girl when I see one . |
18 | litre turbocharged engine , a revamped version of the Ford diesel unit which has been around for a few years . |
19 | 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 ? |
20 | 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 . |
21 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
22 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
23 | ‘ 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 . |
24 | 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 . |
25 | How come the Europeans accept musicians who 've been around for a while , but we British just pour scorn on them as has-beens ? |
26 | 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 . |
27 | ( Lazing 's highly recommended if you 've been up for the 8.30am aerobics . |
28 | ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’ |
29 | You 've been off for a while . |
30 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |