Example sentences of "[pron] have been for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Just even I 've been for a wee ! |
2 | Boozy Dennett — who earns £600 a week with his dummy Chick — added : ‘ I have been for a walk to have a think and went back , but it 's getting worse . ’ |
3 | You 've been for a walk eh ? |
4 | He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer . |
5 | She 's been the middle school , she 's been for a visit to the middle school |
6 | They 'd been for a meal and they came to the flat and they rung us to say they were there . |
7 | Cos they 'd been for a meal on the way as well ! |
8 | But if China really is now backing peace and free elections , the signs are more hopeful than they 've been for a decade . |
9 | The 1480s show an average comparable with the 1430s , although this figure is probably depressed by the bad years of 1482 and 1483 in the latter year prices were higher than they had been for a century , and wages did not rise proportionately . |
10 | One afternoon after they had been for a swim together , Sycorax said , as Ariel took her on her back again , grunting for the old woman had grown so much heavier , it seemed , since her immersion , ‘ You are having the red man 's child . ’ |
11 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
12 | The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent . |
13 | Last time it had been for a length of dress material . |
14 | then that and he just bring me pack of cards you know er but er that 's how it 's been for a while you know if I thought well being a sh that that 's now we 've done it it 's a pity we 've not got , mind you I mean it can go potty again in a few years . |