Example sentences of "[vb base] been for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault . |
| 2 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 4 | That 's where we 've been for the last twenty years so erm this company er that was already doing it and we bought it into the er into the fold . |
| 5 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 6 | Surely they 've been for the last four years and they must or do they just keep it at eighty one then they go to ninety ? |
| 7 | Most of them , perhaps , were doctors , government servants of one degree or another ; a few were farmers ( I can think of one , still remembered ) and some were just friends , as I myself have been for the Bakgatia and , I hope , for the whole new country of Botswana . |
| 8 | There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters . |
| 9 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 10 | Some of the Government 's changes have been for the better . |
| 11 | Half of all the records since 1947 have been for the period mid-February to mid-April , particularly March , with 30 per cent. , which suggests that there is a fairly regular , although small , spring movement through the county . |
| 12 | As far as is known all the records have been for the period spring to autumn . |
| 13 | Wintering birds favour coastal farmland and marshes and a high proportion of recent records have been for the Selsey peninsular , the Beachy Head area , and from Rye to the Midrips . |
| 14 | ‘ Considerable amounts are being spent on replacing them with better services , and have been for the past few years . |
| 15 | The German study spells out how catastrophic the last 15 years have been for the now emasculated British industry . |
| 16 | If it had n't have been for the policeman there would have been untold carnage . ’ |
| 17 | And would it be impolite of me to enquire exactly where you and the other officers have been for the last eight hours ? ’ |
| 18 | Obviously the standards are not satisfactory but they are the same as they have been for the last 30 years and they are of Mr Pritchard 's choosing . |