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

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1 This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ .
2 You 've not been on for a while have you ?
3 Good you 've not been on for a while either have you ?
4 She 's act she er they 've been down for a for a flying visit , I think , th they like to fly and fly back because it gets th the fre used to the freedom .
5 He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him .
6 I did n't know Julia had n't been in for a long while .
7 you see , if you put a line it costs you about a hundred a thirty quid now I think , but according to what they tell me , once a line has been in for a year if you put a line in , you 've got to pay the first year , its got ta be in for a year , if you have it taken out before the year , you 'll still be due for the rental on it
8 But the they give it you at the end of the quarter , even if you have n't been in for a quarter .
9 The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense .
10 Secondly , a while ago I mentioned that a guy called Alan Byrne had been over for a trial , in Elland Road , from Shamrock Rovers in Dublin .
11 No , Lindsey told herself , as she showered and slipped into a warm towelling robe , it had actually been over for a long time .
12 You 've been off for a while .
13 You had to appear in front of them , well this , I 'd been off for a week and the old Harbourmaster old he sent for me and he said erm , you can start work tomorrow as I .
14 He'd' 've had really , well this is the he goes back on Monday and he 've had a month off been off for a month .
15 ‘ I have n't been up for a while , ’ her father said , implying a total absence of mind , and some of body , too .
16 I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy .
17 So the Stenness Hotel has been up for a while then .
18 cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too
19 It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles .
20 No , I 've been up for an hour !
21 ( Lazing 's highly recommended if you 've been up for the 8.30am aerobics .
22 ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly .
23 Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work .
24 Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched .
25 He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning .
26 Not since he 's been back for a week .
27 an injection and been back for a check up , yes it 's a good thirty pounds , you ca n't step in the door really without twenty five pounds .
28 You see , some girl 's been out for a drink , or to a disco , met a fella , the fella invites her back , she goes , and things go a bit further than she intended .
29 It 's ages since we 've been out for a drink together , ’ Laura enthused .
30 Henry , morose , defiant and all but monosyllabic , had been out for a drink early in the evening , but had returned before nine with his younger brother , Francis , with whom he shared a small cottage .
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