Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been married for seven hours . |
| 2 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 3 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 4 | I 'm 21 , I 've been married for four years and I have two children aged three and one . |
| 5 | I 've been married for sixteen years . |
| 6 | I 've been married for 16 years to a man I really love . |
| 7 | Hang on , wait a minute , er August , September , January , February , March I 've been single for nine months . |
| 8 | It frightens me , sir — I 've been frightened for more than a week now , and I just ca n't go on any longer . ’ |
| 9 | I 've been bad for two weeks |
| 10 | The , the thing is that I 've been concerned for some time when it 's finally helped , f f found for next month , because |
| 11 | That 's why I 've been quiet for two hours |
| 12 | As one who was teethed on the works of George Gaylord Simpson , I 've been bemused for several years by the supposed ‘ revisionist ’ implications of punctuation . |
| 13 | For this reason I have been convinced for some months that interest rates are too high and that they should start to be reduced at once . |
| 14 | I HAVE been married for 26 years to a wife I have loved since I was 20 . |
| 15 | As for myself — Bob and I have been married for forty-six years , and spent most of our married life on and around Manchester , where he was ( eventually ) Market Research Manager in an engineering firm , and I practised social work when not fully engaged with the 2 children . |
| 16 | Now Daph and I have been married for 30 years . |
| 17 | Now I have been married for ten years . |
| 18 | The fact is , sir , that I have been alone for several years now . |
| 19 | I have been unemployed for seven months now and all the people I meet in the Job Club seem to have at least one bad experience of these so-called training schemes . |
| 20 | She has been depressed for some time . |
| 21 | ‘ She has been unwell for some time ; she is liable to spells of nervous depression . |
| 22 | It was impossible to know whether he still believed she 'd been responsible for that . |
| 23 | ‘ We always wanted to sponsor a guide dog and by the time you 've been married for 50 years you 've got everything you need and there 's no point in getting presents you do n't really need , ’ said Mr Lea . |
| 24 | She had been listless for some time and the woman could only hope that moving her right away from the influence of the people she went around with into these beautiful surroundings might bring her back to herself . |
| 25 | She had been homesick for this city , and the years of marriage to Nahum slipped away . |
| 26 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 27 | She had been married for 19 years and had four children ( aged between 12 and 17 years ) . |
| 28 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 29 | As it was , this first ever trip on a narrow boat looked like being her last , and she had been asleep for most of it . |
| 30 | She had been amenorrhoeic for six months before her first attendance at this hospital . |