Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] have [been] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six . |
| 2 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 3 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 4 | Just such a product has been introduced into the UK , although it has been around for a while in the US , under the generic name InteSoft . |
| 5 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 6 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 7 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 8 | He gives them tremendous know-how , and the fact that he has been out for so long wo n't affect him . |
| 9 | The current version is 9.0 version 99 , so it 's been around for a while ! |
| 10 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 11 | I found her bustling about with a feather duster looking as if she 'd been up for hours . |
| 12 | ( Lazing 's highly recommended if you 've been up for the 8.30am aerobics . |
| 13 | Well if th if there 's somebody whose listening in the Derby area who can help us with a street lamp that 's out and it 's rather important that it get put on , and it 's been out for six weeks now |
| 14 | If it had been out for a walk or you know ? |
| 15 | Well if it 's frozen there 's no way so er I rang up Mobil you see in and the fellow said oh if it 's been on for s you know few years he said , take your calliper off , put it in the vice and just lever it back that 's what we do |
| 16 | Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers . |
| 17 | It 's ages since we 've been out for a drink together , ’ Laura enthused . |
| 18 | Not since he 's been back for a week . |
| 19 | Ignore how you feel when you first wake and take note instead of how you feel after you have been up for about ten minutes — many people find those first waking moments difficult to cope with . |
| 20 | When you have been up for half an hour on a normal working day , how do you feel ? |
| 21 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
| 22 | The German Dynacord company remain relatively unheralded within the modern music industry , even though they 've been around for over forty years , in fact since the very inception of electronic amplification . |
| 23 | The opportunity to escape from Reine appealed to Jean-Claude , even though he had been back for only a few weeks . |