Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The city has changed so much that anyone who has been away for a couple of years could be forgiven for thinking that he arrived in a time machine , not an airliner . |
| 2 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 3 | Operating as Shadowfax Restaurants , the partnership has been together for a number of years , and currently has two Pizza Express outlets in Barnet and Finchley , and part ownership of a pizza restaurant in the West End of London . |
| 4 | Clearly , Petasites has been there for a very long time . |
| 5 | And when the hole has been there for a couple of days , they can dig another if necessary . |
| 6 | The social dimension of the Community has been there for a long time . |
| 7 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 8 | I mean you do get parishes where the parish priest has been there for the last thirty years or something like that . |
| 9 | AS part of the Midland Railway Centre 's development the Narrow Gauge Railway Project has been underway for a number of years with volunteers working to re-create a length of line to both carry passengers into the Country Park and demonstrate the uses of this track gauge . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
| 12 | ‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy . |
| 13 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | When he 'd been home for a month . |
| 17 | Well they sort of said that what , hopefully , she 'll like be there for a couple of days and she 'll never think she 's been anywhere else , she 'll think she 's been there all the time . |
| 18 | Quail Eggs Arnold Bennett — perhaps the name should put one off , and what arrived was enough for a full meal , with much haddock , but the sauce was rather thick , reminding one of our party of a school-sanatorium dinner . |
| 19 | The extra 10 minutes allowed was evidently for the classes ( or the masters ) to move . |
| 20 | If anything , it has even more justified my decision to leave Coventry where I was manager and join Chelsea — I certainly could not have been away for a month if I 'd stayed at Highfield Road . |
| 21 | It could not have been otherwise for the attainment of the required goal of the perfect human being was possible by no other means . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | It 's their intention to leave the boat station there , but as a boat hiring station only , and to let rent that to somebody , not to have boat building enterprises , not to have a car park , not to have a chandlery and so on which was put there by the person whose who used to own it , and we will recoup all of that money from renting that boat station so it can be run as a boat hiring station again , and from three or four of the moorings that are will have been there for a long time , with proper permission . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The sale agreed and completed was thus for the land and buildings as they were at that time . |
| 26 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ) |
| 29 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 30 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |