Example sentences of "been [adv prt] for [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I did n't know Julia had n't been in for a long while .
2 No , Lindsey told herself , as she showered and slipped into a warm towelling robe , it had actually been over for a long time .
3 Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched .
4 I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’
5 Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time .
6 As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time .
7 The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time .
8 Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic .
9 Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago .
10 The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 Is this a new disease , something we 've discovered recently , or has it been around for a long time ?
14 And I wo n't spare a minute 's thought for the fact that Piers has n't been around for the entire day , and lord only knows what he 's getting up to with Nicole .
15 In looking for the answers , let us begin with those citizens who have been around for the longest time — the elderly and those in later middle age .
16 ‘ Why do n't you tell me about it ? — Sorry I have n't been around for the last couple of days .
17 Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month .
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