Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
2 | But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work . |
3 | I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously . |
4 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
5 | Repeat name and date at every opportunity ; the sort of people who live in the East End like to know you 've been around for some time . |
6 | She had been up for five hours . |
7 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | When you have been up for half an hour on a normal working day , how do you feel ? |
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 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
12 | They 've been out for fifteen minutes . |
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 | They have been out for fifteen minutes . |
15 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
16 | 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 " . |
17 | 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 ’ . |
18 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
19 | 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 |
20 | Jackie said he 's been up for seven o'clock . |
21 | ‘ He 's been back for two days . ’ |
22 | He 's been out for some time . |