Example sentences of "[adv] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had only been away for three days . |
| 2 | A clergyman who was in Manchester Cathedral when the second device went off said : ‘ I had only been there for a matter of seconds when I heard an almighty crump . |
| 3 | He 's a new environment officer , he 's only been there for a month or something . |
| 4 | Perhaps not as bad as Buff , because the animal had only been there for a second or two and I had told them it was a robot . |
| 5 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 6 | ‘ Since you had not been here for a fortnight , ’ he said , ‘ I assumed that you had completed your enquiries . ’ |
| 7 | Can I just clarify one other point with the County Council and for the benefit of those who 've not been here for the last however many days . |
| 8 | It might not have been a very long missive , but it brought Aubrey into the room as if they had not been apart for two whole years . |
| 9 | Mere existence had not been enough for him , in the Epilogue 's diagnosis ; he had always wanted something more . |
| 10 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 11 | ‘ Old Mr Fiddle has not been there for some time , Rose , ’ said Dagmar from the door . |
| 12 | Low Birk Hatt Farm has always been home for my family . |
| 13 | Part of her power is that she has always been there for her children , part of her sadness is that they have betrayed that care by what she sees as dereliction of duty . |
| 14 | On Jan. 28 Goulding said that " one of the conditions which has always been there for the deployment of the UN force in Yugoslavia , namely a stable ceasefire , has now been fulfilled " , although there were still violations of the ceasefire , albeit " comparatively minor " ones . |
| 15 | She seems to have always been there for me to run to . |
| 16 | References in the work of Constantine Porphyrogenitus , written in the tenth century , indicate that they were settled in Dalmatia in his time and had probably been there for two hundred years . |
| 17 | It had probably been there for some time ! |
| 18 | She felt as if she were not really there , as if she had not really been there for a long time . |
| 19 | I 'll come following you He d yeah it was odd when Frank said that cos apparently what happened , he just sort of started saying that he did n't think that Frank had really been there for him and that he was being a bit sort of selfish and stuff which I mean maybe he has been but the thing is if you know if Frank 's making this massive effort to like fit in and meet new people and stuff then |
| 20 | I have now been here for over a week , and am beginning to get into the swing of things . |
| 21 | The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining . |
| 22 | ‘ They 've now been there for more than three weeks and in my view they just ca n't find their way out again . |
| 23 | Despite their 20-year age gap , the couple have now been together for eight years and run a pub in Amersham , Bucks . |
| 24 | He never put in an appearance until early evening and , except for that first night , he had not even been home for dinner . |
| 25 | Then she said , quietly , ‘ Yes , although I have n't been here for a long time . |
| 26 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
| 27 | I have n't been here for years , although the land belongs to me . |
| 28 | ‘ You have n't been here for weeks — all the time I was ill . |
| 29 | ‘ I have n't been here for very long . |
| 30 | His father has n't been here for years . |