Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
| 2 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 5 | We had been lovers for a year or so . |
| 6 | We had been colleagues for years and , as I say , I was having difficulty focussing . |
| 7 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 8 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 9 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 10 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |