Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [been] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | Just even I 've been for a wee ! |
| 3 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |
| 4 | Boozy Dennett — who earns £600 a week with his dummy Chick — added : ‘ I have been for a walk to have a think and went back , but it 's getting worse . ’ |
| 5 | A good deal gives me the feeling that I have been for a nice seven-day trip to the Bahamas . ’ |
| 6 | Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time . |
| 7 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
| 8 | You 've been for a walk eh ? |
| 9 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 10 | These maxims , many of them reflecting nothing more than common sense , and taken from the recorded experience of the past , were to be found mainly in two works : the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus , written in the first century AD , and the Stratagemata of Frontinus , composed in the same century by a man who had been for a short while Roman governor of Britain . |
| 11 | He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer . |
| 12 | She 's been the middle school , she 's been for a visit to the middle school |
| 13 | McNab , who hit his first goal of the season , said : ‘ The second half was as poor as we have been for a long time but recent performances have been magnificent . |
| 14 | And glory in the 1,000 Guineas may well be a lot more than just a warming winter thought because Dead Certain beat as competitive a field as there has been for a juvenile filly 's race for many years . |
| 15 | They 'd been for a meal and they came to the flat and they rung us to say they were there . |
| 16 | Cos they 'd been for a meal on the way as well ! |
| 17 | But if China really is now backing peace and free elections , the signs are more hopeful than they 've been for a decade . |
| 18 | One afternoon after they had been for a swim together , Sycorax said , as Ariel took her on her back again , grunting for the old woman had grown so much heavier , it seemed , since her immersion , ‘ You are having the red man 's child . ’ |
| 19 | The 1480s show an average comparable with the 1430s , although this figure is probably depressed by the bad years of 1482 and 1483 in the latter year prices were higher than they had been for a century , and wages did not rise proportionately . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend will note that German interest rates and ours are closer than they have been for a long time . |
| 21 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 22 | The Commonwealth came closer together than it has been for a long time . |
| 23 | ‘ No sort of future tense about it , it is and it has been for a long time . |
| 24 | It has been for a , a while now |
| 25 | ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time . |
| 26 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 27 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 28 | The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent . |
| 29 | Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant . |
| 30 | There was also what was to become a recurrent feature of Gilkes 's reports — as indeed it had been for a half a century already — regret at the parents ' lack of faith or courage , which resulted in boys leaving early and not going on to University . |