Example sentences of "[pron] have been for [art] " 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 | I 'm just getting now because erm erm I 've been for an aud not an audition . |
| 4 | I 've been for an interview with Mencap . |
| 5 | ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 9 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | A good deal gives me the feeling that I have been for a nice seven-day trip to the Bahamas . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 15 | It was a depressing and dispiriting experience , exactly as life itself has been for the young unemployed , day in and day out . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | You 've been for a walk eh ? |
| 18 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 19 | Agnes , tanned , huge , all beads and bright caftan , determined to give birth in the lotus position ( in which she claimed the child had been conceived ) while going ‘ Om ’ , refused to answer any of my father 's questions about where she had been for the three years and who she had been with . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer . |
| 22 | She 's been the middle school , she 's been for a visit to the middle school |
| 23 | She 's been for the week |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The nearest one had been for the use of the Conway 's house , the second one was for the use of Tommy Grant and his family . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They 'd been for a meal and they came to the flat and they rung us to say they were there . |
| 29 | Cos they 'd been for a meal on the way as well ! |
| 30 | But if China really is now backing peace and free elections , the signs are more hopeful than they 've been for a decade . |