Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] [been] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is , however , one little car which has been around for almost 33 years , is enjoying a revival in popularity and still holds it second-hand value well . |
| 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 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 4 | A Turk who 's been there for ten days and the club handyman . ’ |
| 5 | But our focus is primarily upon people , not places as such ; the male survivors of the next generation of Titfords succeeded in wrenching themselves away from the town which had been home for their ancestors for over a hundred and seventy years — and we have no choice but to follow them . |
| 6 | Sandra said : ‘ It has been a very worthwhile project from the health and safety aspect by a very successful QC team which has been together for almost three years . ’ |
| 7 | Exactly , unless they guarantee human rights er , you see , what 's really happening especially in the Baltic , that is er there , there is an anti Russian feeling you know , and er there is element in in the Baltic Republic who want to er , want to deport the Russian population who 've been there for maybe for the last forty five years . |
| 8 | There 's just one thing : what happens to band who 've been together for virtually a decade ? |
| 9 | I mean he 's , I think we 'll miss him , but I think he 's entitled to a move he 's been here for a little while |
| 10 | Another decade was to pass before it really sank in , and he could write , ‘ What an ass I have been both for not knowing and for thinking I knew . |
| 11 | Yeah , you 're gon na have one in a minute I 've been up for ages ! |
| 12 | A woman of 40 came with digestive disturbance which had been around for twenty years and which had been ameliorated but not cured by previous homœopathic treatment . |
| 13 | That is just called pentate it is not called E M penta any more equally you do n't have sec butile alcohol turk turt butile alcohol they 've been out for ten years ! |
| 14 | The Christian may be in a church which has been together for several hundred years , and so he knows there is a certain likelihood of it still being together next year ! |
| 15 | The man who 's been here for the past three weekends , always at the same table , always alone and always gazing at you with those incredible dark eyes of his . ’ |
| 16 | Axil 's existing compatibles are the $13,000 HWS-S210 which has been around for some time , the $17,000 HWS-S310 model 3.0 and the $23,500 HWS-S310 model 4.1 which are due next quarter . |
| 17 | litre turbocharged engine , a revamped version of the Ford diesel unit which has been around for a few years . |
| 18 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 19 | Sinead had a hard time at school because she was a newcomer in a class which had been together for two years , and some of her fellow pupils knew her recent history . |
| 20 | He 's been in the business a long time but believe it or not this is the first time he 's been inside for over twenty years . |