Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [adv prt] for [num] " in BNC.

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1 I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously .
2 I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and
3 She had been up for five hours .
4 She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head .
5 Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years .
6 They 've been out for fifteen minutes .
7 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 !
8 They have been out for fifteen minutes .
9 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 ’ .
10 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
11 Jackie said he 's been up for seven o'clock .
12 He 's been back for two days . ’
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