Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The requests have always been turned down usually for financial reasons . |
| 2 | ‘ I thought I 'd ring and congratulate you on managing at last to see what some of us have been going on about for all these years . ’ |
| 3 | We had been going out together for four years ; he was more like a brother than a boyfriend . |
| 4 | Well , that 's been dragging on now for three or four weeks erm . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , they have been cooped up here for some time , ’ Ana pointed out . |
| 6 | They 've been fighting out there for bloody years . ’ |
| 7 | It had been taken along here for 30 fathoms and stopped at a fault beyond which the vein had been lost . |
| 8 | Social class is not the only speaker variable which presents problems of definition and interpretation , but it has been singled out here for detailed discussion for two reasons . |