Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | A good deal gives me the feeling that I have been for a nice seven-day trip to the Bahamas . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend will note that German interest rates and ours are closer than they have been for a long time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |