Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] been [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Ox has been around for a couple of months , but the new host of the Tips Clinic is Dr Butcher . |
| 2 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 3 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 4 | The sun has been out for a while after straining hard through moody skies and my skin is warming . |
| 5 | Hypnosis has been around for a long , long time . |
| 6 | The Great Britain half-back has been out for a month with strained stomach muscles . |
| 7 | You see , some girl 's been out for a drink , or to a disco , met a fella , the fella invites her back , she goes , and things go a bit further than she intended . |
| 8 | The record has been out for a couple of years , and it 's called ‘ Electric Counterpoint ’ . |
| 9 | Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month . |
| 10 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 11 | you see , if you put a line it costs you about a hundred a thirty quid now I think , but according to what they tell me , once a line has been in for a year if you put a line in , you 've got to pay the first year , its got ta be in for a year , if you have it taken out before the year , you 'll still be due for the rental on it |
| 12 | FX has been out for a while first on Sun Sparc 's and Hewett-Packard Co 9000/400s last December , then on DECstation 5000s and HP 700s in January and finally on IBM 6000s in July . |
| 13 | This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ . |
| 14 | So the Stenness Hotel has been up for a while then . |
| 15 | The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems . |
| 16 | You forget we 've got spies , all the staff on this ward tell Jim exactly what you 've been doing er , that 's , that 's how he knew you got your hair done , can we have five pounds , she 's just had her hair permed , the day before he 's just coming in and , no they sent to the ward can we have five pounds please your mum 's been out for the day and she 's had her lunch out you cost him a fortune and you say you 've never been anywhere |