Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [adv] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It seems as though we have been away for years . |
| 3 | They are there ; they have been there for years . |
| 4 | Rocks look more natural if you bed them into the gravel slightly , as if they have been there for years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ But some of them have been here for ages , ’ she remonstrated . |