Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [adv prt] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 2 | You had to appear in front of them , well this , I 'd been off for a week and the old Harbourmaster old he sent for me and he said erm , you can start work tomorrow as I . |
| 3 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 4 | No , I 've been up for an hour ! |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 6 | Now , I 've been around for a lot of years and I know a bad girl when I see one . |
| 7 | ( Lazing 's highly recommended if you 've been up for the 8.30am aerobics . |
| 8 | You 've been off for a while . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It 's ages since we 've been out for a drink together , ’ Laura enthused . |
| 11 | I might , for Phil , for Phil to wind down , he 'll come in , say we 've been out for a meal or whatever , he 'll come in and he 'll sit down in front of the television . |
| 12 | She 's act she er they 've been down for a for a flying visit , I think , th they like to fly and fly back because it gets th the fre used to the freedom . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They have been around for a very long time , as I said , dating right back to Model Book 35 in fact , which appeared in 1982 . |
| 15 | Oh I see , they have been about for a while . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | If it had been out for a walk or you know ? |
| 18 | So , eager to help , she went over to him , he had been around for a while but he was strange so nobody really spoke to him . |
| 19 | The current version is 9.0 version 99 , so it 's been around for a while ! |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Not since he 's been back for a week . |