Example sentences of "they have [be] [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | they and er they 've been around for centuries of course but er erm there 's all sorts of myths about them some of which are half-truths and some which un-truths . |
| 2 | Mhm cos they 've been there for ages have n't they Mary do n't you think ? |
| 3 | Some refugees in the embassy gardens said they had been there for days , but had not boarded the sealed refugee trains travelling through East Germany to Bavaria . |
| 4 | Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia . |
| 5 | They are there ; they have been there for years . |
| 6 | Rocks look more natural if you bed them into the gravel slightly , as if they have been there for years . |
| 7 | 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 . |