Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [verb] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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1 | Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot . |
2 | But if she came and found Tina up she could pretend to herself that Tina had been up for hours , and was a normal person and a proper mother . |
3 | As the Doctor gives the conventional lore of his day , a blend of ethics and medicine : we see that we are also those ‘ deaf pillows ’ , that the masking and unmasking has been all for our sake . |
4 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
5 | The little that she 'd been able to piece together was that Pamela was a barrister , that the house did , as Lucy had suspected , belong to her , and that she and Josie had been together for at least five years and probably longer . |
6 | She and Lewis had been out for a meal the night before . |
7 | Tommy and Iain had been out for fifteen minutes . |
8 | Brooke Alexander , of course , and Josh Baer , Ronald Feldman , Pat Hearn and Feature have been there for some time . |
9 | But the man whom he promised to come back and visit had been there for twenty years , the oldest inhabitant , as the turnkey would tell newcomers ; he could play the piano and speak fluent French and Italian . |
10 | For example , one wonders if the doubts about the unity of geography are any less profound than those that afflict environmental science , but geography has been around for much longer and has developed powerful institutional , professional and curricular structures , not least in the schools . |
11 | Moreover , there is a coincidence between centres of dispersal and enclaves of diversity among Amazonian languages and the plant and animal ‘ refugia ’ , but humans have been there for perhaps only 6000 years . |
12 | But she did say on one occasion , after Cassie had been home for about two days : ‘ How 's that nice young man we met , Cassie ? |
13 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |