Example sentences of "[been] [adv prt] for a " 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 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |
| 20 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Not since he 's been back for a week . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It 's ages since we 've been out for a drink together , ’ Laura enthused . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I had n't been out for a long time , so I did it for the relaxation , really ! ’ |
| 28 | The record has been out for a couple of years , and it 's called ‘ Electric Counterpoint ’ . |
| 29 | The Great Britain half-back has been out for a month with strained stomach muscles . |
| 30 | Many people who have been out for a number of years have friends and lovers who have died or may die . |