Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm better than I 've been for a long time . ’ |
| 2 | Just even I 've been for a wee ! |
| 3 | I 'm just getting now because erm erm I 've been for an aud not an audition . |
| 4 | I 've been for an interview with Mencap . |
| 5 | ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault . |
| 6 | Oh , I wish I could have continued as I 've been for the last year or so , with no hopes or fears , and no pleasures and no sadness . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Where I 've been for the past 200 years or so , we count ourselves lucky if we still have one . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I took it up as a form of exercise in Germany , where I 've been for the past two years , ’ he said yesterday . |
| 9 | But I 'm in better shape than I have been for a long time . ’ |
| 10 | Boozy Dennett — who earns £600 a week with his dummy Chick — added : ‘ I have been for a walk to have a think and went back , but it 's getting worse . ’ |
| 11 | A good deal gives me the feeling that I have been for a nice seven-day trip to the Bahamas . ’ |
| 12 | Now it is three months ’ rest and come the start of the 1991 season I 'll be ready to go again , more confident than I have been for a long time . |
| 13 | There ought to be a space or an empty page or maybe even a change of typography to show that I have been for the past three and a half hours out in the streets or sitting full of thought on that gilded and trembling bridge over these lazy waters . |
| 14 | I 'm more optimistic than I have been for the past few years . ’ |
| 15 | In July 1944 Attlee presented a paper on ‘ Foreign Policy and the Flying Bomb ’ , which pointed out that it would henceforth be impossible for Britain to rely upon the English Channel as a defence against her enemies : From our point of view , Norway , Denmark , Holland and France are necessary outposts of Britain and , in as much as Britain is now as she has been for a hundred years a shield for the U.S. , outposts of America as well . |
| 16 | You 've been for a walk eh ? |
| 17 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 18 | Agnes , tanned , huge , all beads and bright caftan , determined to give birth in the lotus position ( in which she claimed the child had been conceived ) while going ‘ Om ’ , refused to answer any of my father 's questions about where she had been for the three years and who she had been with . |
| 19 | She 's been the middle school , she 's been for a visit to the middle school |
| 20 | She 's been for the week |
| 21 | That 's where we 've been for the last twenty years so erm this company er that was already doing it and we bought it into the er into the fold . |
| 22 | McNab , who hit his first goal of the season , said : ‘ The second half was as poor as we have been for a long time but recent performances have been magnificent . |
| 23 | They 'd been for a meal and they came to the flat and they rung us to say they were there . |
| 24 | Cos they 'd been for a meal on the way as well ! |
| 25 | But if China really is now backing peace and free elections , the signs are more hopeful than they 've been for a decade . |
| 26 | Surely they 've been for the last four years and they must or do they just keep it at eighty one then they go to ninety ? |
| 27 | One afternoon after they had been for a swim together , Sycorax said , as Ariel took her on her back again , grunting for the old woman had grown so much heavier , it seemed , since her immersion , ‘ You are having the red man 's child . ’ |
| 28 | The 1480s show an average comparable with the 1430s , although this figure is probably depressed by the bad years of 1482 and 1483 in the latter year prices were higher than they had been for a century , and wages did not rise proportionately . |
| 29 | They were unfortunate in that batting conditions for them were not as favourable as they had been for the West Indians . |
| 30 | Ipswich were as lethargic at the start of the second half as they had been for the majority of the first and on the hour , in an attempt to liven them up , Lyall brought off Milton and Goddard to introduce Palmer and Johnson . |