Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been friends for a few years with the head stalker of Corrour estate , Ted Piggott , and his wife Theresia . |
| 2 | I 've been search for it and here it is look at that , two in there , that 's the new one |
| 3 | It has certainly caused some confusion amongst my friends — I have been Mrs for 44 years ! — |
| 4 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 5 | Within the Miners ' Federation and the Amalgamated Engineering Union , which had been centres for anti-war activity in 1916 , the Communist position still received some support . |
| 6 | They 're finger-printing guys who 've been bedridden for years . |
| 7 | She had an abundance of tales from the old colonial days , when she had been cook for a white family . |
| 8 | As could be anticipated , those who had been tenants for several years , and therefore qualified for bigger discounts , were over-represented among the purchasers . |
| 9 | What he overheard provided his first insight into the intimate sentiments of mature Fists who had been warriors for over seventy years — as the seven long-service studs on the craggy , crewcut forehead of each star-knight signified . |
| 10 | The Austrian Communist Party ( Kommunistische Partei Österreichs — KPÖ ) at its congress in Vienna on Jan. 20-21 , 1990 , accepted the decision of Franz Muhri , who had been chair for 25 years , not to stand for re-election . |
| 11 | The Manager of the year awards are open to Domino 's staff who have been managers for more than nine months . |
| 12 | But if you wanted to take your revenge and kill me , because of some ancient grudge against somebody who 's been dust for 200 years , then why did n't you just do it last night at my house ? |
| 13 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
| 14 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 15 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 17 | We are , we are debt free , we 've been debt for a long time . |
| 18 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 19 | We 've been friends for years . |
| 20 | She 's a twenty-seven year-old female , just the same age as me , her name is Kelly Adam , she 's a television camerawoman , and we 've been friends for years . |
| 21 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 22 | We 've been pals for a long time . |
| 23 | We had been lovers for a year or so . |
| 24 | We had been colleagues for years and , as I say , I was having difficulty focussing . |
| 25 | In the case of Larbert , there has been support for the application from the Institute of Health Services Management , the Forth Valley college of nursing and midwifery and the National Board for Nursing , Midwifery and Health Visiting . |
| 26 | Indeed , there has been widespread belief that management is not really feasible despite the fact that , in terms of producing a naturally-regenerating stand of timber trees without any sign of soil deterioration , there has been success for over a century , beginning with teak in southern Asia . |
| 27 | Since the slump of 1921 there has been a prevailing tendency , occasionally interrupted but invariably resumed before there has been time for a real recovery towards parsimony and restriction . |
| 28 | This is to ask whether there has been time for natural selection to specify the DNA present in the human genome . |
| 29 | Both Nicaragua and Cuba have seen significant changes for women , but the Cuban example is particularly instructive , since there has been time for new gender roles to develop . |
| 30 | Fewer papers should be taken at very short notice before there has been time for the Departments to comment on them . |