Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 2 | I done it to I done it to Russell one night messing around and he told the girls in work I 'd been away for the weekend and he 'd had somebody else there honest to God he did ! |
| 3 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 4 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been away for a week and I had about 70 messgaes to read . |
| 7 | No , cos I 've been away for a couple of days . |
| 8 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 9 | Although I 've been here for a long time , I 've got my house , got my family here , I 've got comfortable living , although not er luxurious but er normal standard , better standard than I could have in India . |
| 10 | Now please tell me if I 'm keeping you , I know I 've been here for a very long time |
| 11 | God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’ |
| 12 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 13 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
| 14 | ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’ |
| 15 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |
| 16 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 17 | She had been inside for a day . |
| 18 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 19 | She 's been away for the last week or so |
| 20 | ‘ … she 's been here for the best part of a week and you 're no further forward . ’ |
| 21 | She 's been there for the last month . |
| 22 | Because we 've been here for the discussion . |
| 23 | And er if it 's more convenient , if you 've got er a lengthy inquiry , call into any tax office , the nearest one , I 've even called into tax offices when we 've been away for a weekend , just to pick up brochures and things like that . |
| 24 | We 've been away for a long time . |
| 25 | ‘ We 've been apart for a long time . |
| 26 | er just one after thought , Dennis mentioned teamwork , now we we 've been together for a few years basically , but you might say , we work as a team , everyone gets on , everyone helps each other out . |
| 27 | And , as I say , we 've been together for a long time and the appointment , the changeover of the appointments |
| 28 | They 've been together for the past six years — which she cites as one very good reason why she did n't fall for Craig McLachlan while playing his leading lady . |
| 29 | I mean these have n't just been put here , they 've been there for a long time ! |
| 30 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |