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 . ’ |