Example sentences of "[been] [adv prt] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Lazing 's highly recommended if you 've been up for the 8.30am aerobics . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 3 | She had clearly been out for the evening . |
| 4 | Paula Harrison , of North Green , Staindrop , had been out for the evening with friends when she fell 15ft from the bridge into the Tees on Saturday . |
| 5 | You forget we 've got spies , all the staff on this ward tell Jim exactly what you 've been doing er , that 's , that 's how he knew you got your hair done , can we have five pounds , she 's just had her hair permed , the day before he 's just coming in and , no they sent to the ward can we have five pounds please your mum 's been out for the day and she 's had her lunch out you cost him a fortune and you say you 've never been anywhere |
| 6 | ‘ Why do n't you tell me about it ? — Sorry I have n't been around for the last couple of days . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 10 | It 's a new one that 's only just been around for the last fifty years . |
| 11 | Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month . |