Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 2 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 3 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
| 4 | This has been so for the Cape Verdians for close on 300 years , from the time when the original emigrants first found jobs on the North American whaling fleet . |
| 5 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 6 | I done it to I done it to Russell one night messing around and he told the girls in work I 'd been away for the weekend and he 'd had somebody else there honest to God he did ! |
| 7 | They demanded that everybody get out of their way so they could launch their boat , while people who 'd been there for the best of the tide were already bringing their craft out . |
| 8 | The extra 10 minutes allowed was evidently for the classes ( or the masters ) to move . |
| 9 | It could not have been otherwise for the attainment of the required goal of the perfect human being was possible by no other means . |
| 10 | If he had testified the alternatives would have been either for the judge to cross-examine him or for his evidence to remain untested and unchallenged . |
| 11 | The accommodation provided is only for the use of passengers shown on the Final Invoice as confirmed by us ; subletting , sharing or assignment is prohibited . |
| 12 | The sale agreed and completed was thus for the land and buildings as they were at that time . |
| 13 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 14 | If the hon. and learned Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) had been here for the speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) |
| 15 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 16 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
| 17 | The residents themselves recognised the move for some of the older , frailer people would be more difficult and those who had been there for the least time had agreed to go , he said . |
| 18 | God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’ |
| 19 | Because we 've been here for the discussion . |
| 20 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 21 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 22 | They 've been together for the past six years — which she cites as one very good reason why she did n't fall for Craig McLachlan while playing his leading lady . |
| 23 | Gerard and his mother went to London , renting a house in Hampstead Garden Suburb which was to be Hoffnung 's home for the rest of his life . |
| 24 | I remember when my school opened , or just before it did , erm I got the staff together for a conference for a day , and got another East Sussex Head , James Quinn , who came along and talked to them , and one of the things he said was now for the next week or two , whatever John Werner says goes . |
| 25 | ARABELLA ASHLEY ( Portrait painters photographs , page 144 ) and her dog and best friend Clem , have been together for the last four years photographing features for Harpers & Queen . |
| 26 | The flesh itself ranges from the blood red of the arriviste joint to the dull browny-purple bloom of those that have been there for the full three weeks . |
| 27 | ‘ … she 's been here for the best part of a week and you 're no further forward . ’ |
| 28 | The man who 's been here for the past three weekends , always at the same table , always alone and always gazing at you with those incredible dark eyes of his . ’ |
| 29 | And also that young chap 's been here for the van . |
| 30 | She 's been away for the last week or so |