Example sentences of "[verb] be [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 31 | How come the Europeans accept musicians who 've been around for a while , but we British just pour scorn on them as has-beens ? |
| 32 | Now , I 've been around for a lot of years and I know a bad girl when I see one . |
| 33 | Er it 's partly using some questions that 've been around for a very long time but there 're some subtle variations and some new ones added in , okay ? |
| 34 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
| 35 | She 's act she er they 've been down for a for a flying visit , I think , th they like to fly and fly back because it gets th the fre used to the freedom . |
| 36 | It 's ages since we 've been out for a drink together , ’ Laura enthused . |
| 37 | By which time the tenants have come home from work or they 've been out for a few hours , say they 've been out from twelve till six . |
| 38 | I might , for Phil , for Phil to wind down , he 'll come in , say we 've been out for a meal or whatever , he 'll come in and he 'll sit down in front of the television . |
| 39 | You 've been off for a while . |
| 40 | Lowe ball-nuts have been around for a while and they are one of the best devices of this sort that I have used so far . |
| 41 | Pension funds have been around for a century or more , but their modern form was set in 1950 when Charles Wilson , then president of General Motors , set up a fund for his workers . |
| 42 | As W Somerset Maugham once pointed out , short stories have been around for a long time . |
| 43 | 3D spreadsheets have been around for a while , but have tended to be rather cumbersome to use . |
| 44 | They have been around for a very long time , as I said , dating right back to Model Book 35 in fact , which appeared in 1982 . |
| 45 | Artificial pitches have been around for a long time , and this was particularly well illustrated in Holland , where they were rolling out their red shale-type material and putting coconut matting over it 40 years ago . |
| 46 | ‘ Those who have been around for a while and waited on an international chance tend to appreciate it all the more when one arrives , ’ he said . |
| 47 | Many people who have been out for a number of years have friends and lovers who have died or may die . |
| 48 | Oh I see , they have been about for a while . |
| 49 | ORIGINALLY ON the German Rough Mix label and now sensibly picked up by Sheffield 's Warp label , this one 's been around for a while now and has been described as potentially the next Gat Decor . |
| 50 | The current version is 9.0 version 99 , so it 's been around for a while ! |
| 51 | The problem 's been around for a long time , but what 's new is that in an age when women are releasing themselves from stereotypical roles of submission , it 's the men still locked into emotionally repressive macho fantasies who are having all the problems . |
| 52 | Well I think it 's been open to any higher education institution to grab this idea because it 's been around for a long time , the great beauty of Napier is to some degree it 's a centre of excellence it 's got its B A course so has Queen Margaret but at the bottom end but why should I say the bottom end at the bottom end it 's got the B A communications course at the top end it 's got apprentice training for printers . |
| 53 | I mean surely that is a subject that 's been around for a hundred years ? |
| 54 | Not since he 's been back for a week . |
| 55 | You see , some girl 's been out for a drink , or to a disco , met a fella , the fella invites her back , she goes , and things go a bit further than she intended . |