Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] been [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 2 | He gives them tremendous know-how , and the fact that he has been out for so long wo n't affect him . |
| 3 | I can not take the credit for inventing this — it has been around for many years . |
| 4 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 5 | Comet is written in Basic , and although it has been around for about 20 years , is still widely used . |
| 6 | Just such a product has been introduced into the UK , although it has been around for a while in the US , under the generic name InteSoft . |
| 7 | How this name originated I have no idea , but I do know that it has been around for many generations for a jingle about this name has come down from the 19th century and it went : " Old Cribb , Young Cribb and Young Cribbs Son , if it had n't a been for Old Cribb there would n't have been none " . |
| 8 | Bill Wood of Durham called about it , desisted from hurling it in this direction and merely gave the fascinating information that it has been about for 1,500 years and started off in Anglo Saxon as sacleas , meaning ‘ without strife ’ . |
| 9 | Hongkong Bank is inheriting a bank in better shape than it has been in for more than a decade . |
| 10 | it 's been on for about the past month |
| 11 | Well if it 's frozen there 's no way so er I rang up Mobil you see in and the fellow said oh if it 's been on for s you know few years he said , take your calliper off , put it in the vice and just lever it back that 's what we do |
| 12 | Well I think we 'll have to re-look at the whole question of village envelopes in certain cases , where it is decided that low cost housing is desirable , and see if in some way , they can encourage the farmer to make land available so that he can make some money which he badly needs at the moment , as agriculture 's going through one of the biggest depressions it 's been through for years . |
| 13 | Well it 's been gone , it 's been built for a year er er er er it 's been up for ages has n't it ? |
| 14 | The current version is 9.0 version 99 , so it 's been around for a while ! |
| 15 | UTOPIA : It 's been around for quite a time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Well if th if there 's somebody whose listening in the Derby area who can help us with a street lamp that 's out and it 's rather important that it get put on , and it 's been out for six weeks now |
| 18 | I 'm sure that Rex Bellamy wo n't mind me saying that in tennis terms at least , he 's been around for quite a while . |
| 19 | Jackie said he 's been up for seven o'clock . |
| 20 | ‘ He 's been back for two days . ’ |
| 21 | Not since he 's been back for a week . |
| 22 | He 's been out for nearly a week . |
| 23 | He 's been out for some time . |