Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [adv prt] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints .
2 But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work .
3 I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously .
4 I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and
5 Repeat name and date at every opportunity ; the sort of people who live in the East End like to know you 've been around for some time .
6 She had been up for five hours .
7 She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head .
8 In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person .
9 When you have been up for half an hour on a normal working day , how do you feel ?
10 Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years .
11 So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it !
12 They 've been out for fifteen minutes .
13 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 !
14 They have been out for fifteen minutes .
15 I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years .
16 How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " .
17 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 ’ .
18 Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade .
19 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
20 Jackie said he 's been up for seven o'clock .
21 He 's been back for two days . ’
22 He 's been out for some time .
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