Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] been [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been friends for a few years with the head stalker of Corrour estate , Ted Piggott , and his wife Theresia . |
| 2 | I 've been search for it and here it is look at that , two in there , that 's the new one |
| 3 | It has certainly caused some confusion amongst my friends — I have been Mrs for 44 years ! — |
| 4 | He and I have been friends for many years , so it may have helped that I was there to give him some confidence in the project . |
| 5 | She had an abundance of tales from the old colonial days , when she had been cook for a white family . |
| 6 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
| 7 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 8 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |
| 9 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 10 | We are , we are debt free , we 've been debt for a long time . |
| 11 | Funnyman Eddie Large , who lives just a few miles away from The Price Is Right star , said : ‘ We 've been friends for 20 years and he 's one of the nicest men I know . |
| 12 | We 've been friends for years . |
| 13 | She 's a twenty-seven year-old female , just the same age as me , her name is Kelly Adam , she 's a television camerawoman , and we 've been friends for years . |
| 14 | There was often a special pride that the family were ‘ all in the trade ; ’ ‘ all my people have been in the dealing world ; ’ ‘ we 've been blacksmiths for generations ; ’ or they had been self-employed Portland quarrymen ‘ right back a hundred year back . ’ |
| 15 | We 've been pals for a long time . |
| 16 | We had been lovers for a year or so . |
| 17 | We had been colleagues for years and , as I say , I was having difficulty focussing . |
| 18 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 19 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 20 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 21 | After all , they 've been friends for sixteen years , and have worked together for eleven of them … |
| 22 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 23 | They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets . |
| 24 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 25 | More than half the respondents , 54 per cent , said they had been readers for at least ten years and three quarters ( 76 per cent ) had been readers for five years . |
| 26 | If Woonerven had been expensive , there must be doubt as to whether they had been value for money . |
| 27 | The Rev Leslie Gready was led from the Friday morning service to the grounds of St Cuthbert 's Church , Darlington , where he has been vicar for the last ten years . |
| 28 | He has been chairman for ten years of the Scottish Business School , which comprises the business studies departments of the Universities of Glasgow , Strathclyde , Edinburgh , Heriot Watt and Stirling . |
| 29 | He has been MP for Hull East since 1970 . |
| 30 | In Chemicals Manufacturing at Royston and Brimsdown it has been time for change . |