Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found her bustling about with a feather duster looking as if she 'd been up for hours . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But if she came and found Tina up she could pretend to herself that Tina had been up for hours , and was a normal person and a proper mother . |
| 5 | He had been up for hours , out on the farm , before eating . |
| 6 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | A woman of 40 came with digestive disturbance which had been around for twenty years and which had been ameliorated but not cured by previous homœopathic treatment . |
| 9 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 10 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 11 | In any case , the phobia had been around for so long that one extra week would not really make any difference . |
| 12 | As veteran commentator George Melly remarked : ‘ The trad boom was both unexpected and untypical ; its heroes were far older than the norm and had been around for much longer ; the emphasis was instrumental rather than vocal ; the sexual aspect was almost non-existent . ’ |
| 13 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 14 | Much of what Suragai had said suggested that all the races had been around for far longer than recorded history , but that was a possibility which had always been accepted . |
| 15 | The idea of reproducing the unique taste , character and creamy head of Draught Guinness for the take-home market had been around for many years . |
| 16 | So , eager to help , she went over to him , he had been around for a while but he was strange so nobody really spoke to him . |
| 17 | Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 20 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
| 21 | Tommy and Iain had been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 22 | She and Lewis had been out for a meal the night before . |
| 23 | Even while it was registering on her from the newspapers in his hands that he was no lie-a-bed but was up and had been out for his paper , he was taking in the damp , startled look of her and , feigning surprise himself , ‘ It 's a mermaid ! ’ he declared . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If it had been out for a walk or you know ? |
| 26 | The party of young Australians had been out for a meal , and had stopped to take photographs , when Roermond 's market square echoed to gunfire . |
| 27 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 28 | And I saw a dear little shed that someone had made into a craft shop , and the woman said no one had been in for ages , and was n't she pleased to see me … ’ |
| 29 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |
| 30 | The opportunity to escape from Reine appealed to Jean-Claude , even though he had been back for only a few weeks . |