Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] been [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Petite Forlarty which is a castle in the middle , just on the outskirts of Florence er and e for some reason I mean the c the Italians have been colourists for yonks . |
| 2 | Our families have been friends for years . ’ |
| 3 | These are almost always the same men , the ones who own the guns and the best-trained dogs , whose families have been hunters for years , passing their knowledge and experience down through the generations until it 's almost in the blood . |
| 4 | The margin between the two rates had been zero for several weeks , reflecting the strength of the franc . |
| 5 | J. R. Clynes , the new Lord Privy Seal , wrote picturesquely of ‘ the strange turn in Fortune 's wheel which had brought MacDonald the starveling clerk , Thomas the engine driver , Henderson the foundry labourer and Clynes the mill-hand , to this pinnacle beside the man whose forebears had been Kings for so many splendid generations . |
| 6 | His ancestors had been MPs for Liverpool on and off since 1307 , and his father served in the Parliament of 1625 , besides being sheriff of Lancashire in 1620 . |
| 7 | In a famous essay , H. J. Laski recorded that between 1832 and 1906 , out of 139 judges appointed , 80 were Members of the House of Commons at the time of their nomination and 11 others had been candidates for Parliament ; that , of the 80 , 63 were appointed by their own party while in office ; and 33 of them had been either Attorney-General or Solicitor-General . |