Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [adv] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then again , if I 've been shut away in the Prison of Hostages , I expect I 've been away for quite a time . |
| 2 | I 've been here for nearly a year now . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been here for about a week now . ’ |
| 4 | First of all I thought I 'd tell you who I was I 'm a G P in er in New Harlow , in Bush Fair , and I 've been there for nearly three years now . |
| 5 | I have been here for more than two years I have lectured them . |
| 6 | Another decade was to pass before it really sank in , and he could write , ‘ What an ass I have been both for not knowing and for thinking I knew . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ I have been out for nearly 14 months and now there is a great rush to get me back in the squad . |
| 8 | She 'd been there for less than two weeks when her employers discovered she has leukaemia . |
| 9 | but it cuts across , no there there comes a point where the of this world say oh am I allowed to do this , am I allowed to do that if you 've been here for more than three years right and it 's particularly prevalent in Scotland , oh are we allowed to do that , oh I did n't know and that 's old that is. old to a certain extent you know , she 's been around longer than has and been around but influenced by who 's been around a long time you see that 's where we get it , you see we do n't get the initiative coming in that area we get we get the oh Christ , bloody hell let's shove that one out the way that 's a national account . |
| 10 | He loves you , he 's a good bloke , you 've been together for over a year . |
| 11 | Faith has to return to work ; she had been away for almost two and a half months , but Continental Airlines generously sent Tim to Kupang to see if he could help . |
| 12 | When she had been there for about six weeks she received the Medical Superintendent 's recommendation for her bravery . |
| 13 | Ignore how you feel when you first wake and take note instead of how you feel after you have been up for about ten minutes — many people find those first waking moments difficult to cope with . |
| 14 | And er then we erm we , we , we went on the wards for about two or three hours a day and we just s sort of did what we were told , took out drinks and , and that sort of thing , and mouthwashes , and after er we 'd been there for about six or eight weeks we were allowed to wash patients , if , if they could n't wash themselves . |
| 15 | ‘ We 've been together for more than 18 months and we see one another when we can . |
| 16 | Now that we had been here for nearly seven weeks , we were beginning to wonder if the final climax would ever take place at all . |
| 17 | But what I really liked was his face and we have been together for around five years . |
| 18 | They 'd been there for more than fifteen years . |
| 19 | The German Dynacord company remain relatively unheralded within the modern music industry , even though they 've been around for over forty years , in fact since the very inception of electronic amplification . |
| 20 | I do n't think that Judaism or Christianity will be altered by any of this — they have been around for too long for that . |
| 21 | You can ask them for a sick note from their doctor , but only if they have been away for more than seven days . |
| 22 | He gives them tremendous know-how , and the fact that he has been out for so long wo n't affect him . |
| 23 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 24 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 25 | It has been there for more than ten years . |
| 26 | It 's rather like er I had a plant the other day , a marigold , and it had been there for about two weeks and it was a lovely plant , and er I noticed it beginning to droop and I thought , oh well it 's finished now , it 's in a pot . |
| 27 | He had been there for almost two weeks now , visiting Uncle Lionel . |
| 28 | The opportunity to escape from Reine appealed to Jean-Claude , even though he had been back for only a few weeks . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's been here for too long . ’ |
| 30 | UTOPIA : It 's been around for quite a time . |