Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] have [been] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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1 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
2 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
3 | Just such a product has been introduced into the UK , although it has been around for a while in the US , under the generic name InteSoft . |
4 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
5 | The current version is 9.0 version 99 , so it 's been around for a while ! |
6 | I found her bustling about with a feather duster looking as if she 'd been up for hours . |
7 | ( Lazing 's highly recommended if you 've been up for the 8.30am aerobics . |
8 | If it had been out for a walk or you know ? |
9 | Well if it 's frozen there 's no way so er I rang up Mobil you see in and the fellow said oh if it 's been on for s you know few years he said , take your calliper off , put it in the vice and just lever it back that 's what we do |
10 | Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers . |
11 | It 's ages since we 've been out for a drink together , ’ Laura enthused . |
12 | Not since he 's been back for a week . |
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 | When you have been up for half an hour on a normal working day , how do you feel ? |
15 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | The opportunity to escape from Reine appealed to Jean-Claude , even though he had been back for only a few weeks . |