Example sentences of "but [pron] have been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Siegfried , I do n't know what you 'll think , but I 've been recommended for the MC — and I 've recommended every single NCO who was with me . |
| 2 | and they can put that on the recorder but I 've been told for the last two and a half years by this government that I am not unemployed . |
| 3 | I can do it , but I 've been driving for two and a half years |
| 4 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 5 | ‘ But we 've been separated for four years , ’ she reminded him in a more reasonable tone . |
| 6 | We must , surely , eventually get to recovery , but we have been waiting for it for a long time . |
| 7 | Culdub Oakapple opened his mouth to say that acclaim was all very well in its way , but they had been hoping for something a bit more financial than that , but the two Gnomes on each side of him trod on his foot to stop him , because you could not always trust the Oakapple to be tactful . |
| 8 | But they had been chosen for some little time already . |
| 9 | These crystals are usually very small , but they have been detected for a range of polymers including polyesters , polyamides , polyethylene , cellulose acetate , and poly ( 4-methyl pentene-1 ) . |
| 10 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 11 | Unfortunately John Scott Morgan had to postpone his planned October talk ( but he has been booked for next May , see below ) . |
| 12 | Real Men with John Ritter its , its really wacky , like he 's this fucking secret agent stuff , I never smoke unless its after six and he just , he 's this John Ritter and his got this really mild of character but he 's been mistaken for an , an agent and he 's , he 's , he 's going |
| 13 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |
| 14 | But it had been fixed for days in its usual place and she was sure they would make for that . |
| 15 | The principle of treatment of like by like , however , had been enunciated by Hippocrates in the fifth century BC , but it had been forgotten for centuries until rediscovered by Hahnemann . |
| 16 | The budget is due now , but it has been postponed for three months . |
| 17 | I will ask him some time what prompted his winning play but it has been known for players to forget matters like that after a week 's hard work . |
| 18 | We knew of its existence from a photograph taken in the 1850s , but it has been missing for 150 years . |
| 19 | But it 's been hanging for the l particular local plan to receive more specific impetu done this exercise properly . |
| 20 | But it 's been criticised for being unsightly . |
| 21 | There had been a shop in Street I which is still there but it 's been used for other things now . |