Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [adv] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy . |
| 2 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 3 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 4 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 5 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 6 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |
| 7 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 8 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |