Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been there for Harry and the arrow had by-passed my heart . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's not that early — I 've been up for ages , and I 'm leaving in a few minutes . |
| 3 | Yeah , you 're gon na have one in a minute I 've been up for ages ! |
| 4 | I 've been here for years and this is the first conversation I 've had with a human for simply ages . |
| 5 | I have been here for decades untold in this court , never leaving it except in my mind , ranging to far stars yet never truly experiencing those elsewheres . |
| 6 | I found her bustling about with a feather duster looking as if she 'd been up for hours . |
| 7 | You 've been up for weeks now , have n't you ? |
| 8 | " You 've been away for ages , " she says . |
| 9 | " You 've been out for hours . " |
| 10 | She had n't known Mark very well , but she had been there for Robyn when he had died , seen the agony that her friend had gone through . |
| 11 | She 's been there for months — it 's a long-term project … |
| 12 | We 've been pally for years Sadie . |
| 13 | It seems as though we have been away for years . |
| 14 | they and er they 've been around for centuries of course but er erm there 's all sorts of myths about them some of which are half-truths and some which un-truths . |
| 15 | Mhm cos they 've been there for ages have n't they Mary do n't you think ? |
| 16 | Some refugees in the embassy gardens said they had been there for days , but had not boarded the sealed refugee trains travelling through East Germany to Bavaria . |
| 17 | Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia . |
| 18 | They are there ; they have been there for years . |
| 19 | Rocks look more natural if you bed them into the gravel slightly , as if they have been there for years . |
| 20 | No footings were laid — the walls were built directly on the patio paving stones ; they have been there for years and I thought there was little chance of them subsiding . |
| 21 | His body was cold-I think he 'd been there for hours . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It had been there for years — I played there myself as a child — but it was situated in the worst possible place . |
| 23 | After his visits to London his wife was waiting to welcome him as if he had been away for weeks , and she was always dutiful in bed . |
| 24 | Nevertheless they smiled and waved at him as he came in and Deuce , at the tape recorder , came over , arms open , as if he had been away for weeks . |
| 25 | He had been up for hours , out on the farm , before eating . |
| 26 | Well I think we 'll have to re-look at the whole question of village envelopes in certain cases , where it is decided that low cost housing is desirable , and see if in some way , they can encourage the farmer to make land available so that he can make some money which he badly needs at the moment , as agriculture 's going through one of the biggest depressions it 's been through for years . |
| 27 | Well it 's been gone , it 's been built for a year er er er er it 's been up for ages has n't it ? |
| 28 | It 's been there for ages and ages and ages . |
| 29 | We broke that , or that was broke er , but we 'll blame the carrier now and look at it , then our security guy goes out and they know it 's been sitting around someone 's you know , it 's been there for months ! |
| 30 | ‘ He 's been here for hours , though . |