Example sentences of "[pron] [been] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Where has she been for the last decade ?
2	‘ How long had you been at the Jenner Clinic ? ’
3	I ask him stupid things like , ‘ Where have you been for the past six months ? ’
4	Where have you been for the past four hours ? ’
5	Where 've you been for the last six star signs ? ’
6	Or Eddie Grundy … or Mark Hebden … or Ruth Archer … then where have you been for the last forty years .
7	Ah goes listen Romeo you been in the Furrin' Legion ?
8	Have you been in the other room John with this ?
9	‘ Darling , have you been in the Algerian quarter ? ’
10	He 's a bill sales , how long have we been in the indoor sales , or territory four , nine , one , in Manchester depot , which covers the Greater Stockport area .
11	How many by-elections have there been during the 1987–92 Parliament ?
12	What benefit has there been from the Doctus exercise apart from cutting the number of jobs ?
13	‘ England 's batting , fielding and — apart from Emburey and Edmonds — their bowling proclaimed the lack of practice and resolve on a slow pitch which , had they been in the right frame of mind , would have given them an even chance of levelling the series , ’ asserted Wisden .
14	A royal charter , read aloud by a villager on horseback , proclaims Seamer Fair to be open for business for the next seven days ; but it is not , nor has it been for the last fifty years .
15	Cessation of hostilities reduced its political weight , but so effective had it been in the 1918 election and so important was the ex-servicemen 's vote , that it could have been played a while longer .
16	Also , had it been in the first instance the officers of Albinus , there was a need to consider the townspeople since it was they who must have supported him for his bid for the purple on the expectancy of rich return on his success .
17	The crucial question was : where had he been on the eleventh ?

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