Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
| 2 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 3 | Auntie Mavis has only been out for five to ten minutes twice cos of her knee . |
| 4 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 5 | Low Birk Hatt Farm has always been home for my family . |
| 6 | Part of her power is that she has always been there for her children , part of her sadness is that they have betrayed that care by what she sees as dereliction of duty . |
| 7 | On Jan. 28 Goulding said that " one of the conditions which has always been there for the deployment of the UN force in Yugoslavia , namely a stable ceasefire , has now been fulfilled " , although there were still violations of the ceasefire , albeit " comparatively minor " ones . |
| 8 | Despite the fact that homoeopathy has now been around for close on two hundred years , very little research has been carried out either to attempt to understand how it works , or to prove that it does work . |
| 9 | It has certainly been around for a hundred years , and it is probably the most vital of aspect of life as we know it today . |
| 10 | I 'd hardly been back for years — only briefly , when Mama died . |
| 11 | She seems to have always been there for me to run to . |
| 12 | But he had only been away for three days . |
| 13 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 14 | He had only been back for a few hours when company orders were posted showing that Colonel Hamilton wished to see Lance-Corporal Trumper at eleven hundred hours the following morning . |
| 15 | A clergyman who was in Manchester Cathedral when the second device went off said : ‘ I had only been there for a matter of seconds when I heard an almighty crump . |
| 16 | Perhaps not as bad as Buff , because the animal had only been there for a second or two and I had told them it was a robot . |
| 17 | References in the work of Constantine Porphyrogenitus , written in the tenth century , indicate that they were settled in Dalmatia in his time and had probably been there for two hundred years . |
| 18 | It had probably been there for some time ! |
| 19 | He had seen Frank 's mutilated back when they had both been down for screening , and had been deeply shocked . |
| 20 | She had clearly been out for the evening . |
| 21 | The doctor , who had now been there for some time , and was looking at his watch , had been explaining . |
| 22 | ‘ They 've now been there for more than three weeks and in my view they just ca n't find their way out again . |
| 23 | I 'll come following you He d yeah it was odd when Frank said that cos apparently what happened , he just sort of started saying that he did n't think that Frank had really been there for him and that he was being a bit sort of selfish and stuff which I mean maybe he has been but the thing is if you know if Frank 's making this massive effort to like fit in and meet new people and stuff then |
| 24 | No , Lindsey told herself , as she showered and slipped into a warm towelling robe , it had actually been over for a long time . |
| 25 | ‘ Mere existence had never been enough for him ; he had always wanted something more . ’ |
| 26 | This team have only been together for less than a year and it is getting better all the time . |
| 27 | How do you know this is love , your prose side whispers like a sceptical lawyer , it 's only been around for a few weeks , a few months . |
| 28 | Oh do n't it 's only been on for about er , the last half an hour it 's not it 's a cross a crucifix is got bigger on it . |
| 29 | He 's a new environment officer , he 's only been there for a month or something . |
| 30 | I have now been here for over a week , and am beginning to get into the swing of things . |