Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [adv prt] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | cos I said you 'll be here to midnight David and then on the day we were going he stopped me and Jane , little Jane , she was coming down the stairs behind me , I 'd been up for a fax , and I do n't know where she 'd been , she was behind me and as she come down the stairs I was listening and he said got her hand ooh he said I am gon na miss you my dear , so she said yes I 'll miss Hodems as well , he said you have got a way with your words have n't you , he said for one strange minute I thought you were gon na say you 'll miss me too |
| 2 | You had to appear in front of them , well this , I 'd been off for a week and the old Harbourmaster old he sent for me and he said erm , you can start work tomorrow as I . |
| 3 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 5 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not that early — I 've been up for ages , and I 'm leaving in a few minutes . |
| 7 | Yeah , you 're gon na have one in a minute I 've been up for ages ! |
| 8 | No , I 've been up for an hour ! |
| 9 | But he added : ‘ I 've been around for 30-odd years so I 'd like to it was down to all my TV work . |
| 10 | Now , I 've been around for a lot of years and I know a bad girl when I see one . |
| 11 | I 've been out for five days ? ’ he demanded incredulously . |
| 12 | I 've been off for three or four time before for long a few years and |
| 13 | Do they have to produce a doctor 's note say look , I 've been off for |
| 14 | He said : ‘ I have been out for nearly 14 months and now there is a great rush to get me back in the squad . |
| 15 | I found her bustling about with a feather duster looking as if she 'd been up for hours . |
| 16 | ( Lazing 's highly recommended if you 've been up for the 8.30am aerobics . |
| 17 | You 've been up for weeks now , have n't you ? |
| 18 | Repeat name and date at every opportunity ; the sort of people who live in the East End like to know you 've been around for some time . |
| 19 | " You 've been out for hours . " |
| 20 | You 've been off for a while . |
| 21 | how long you 've been off for , to unemployment |
| 22 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 23 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
| 24 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 25 | When you have been up for half an hour on a normal working day , how do you feel ? |
| 26 | Ignore how you feel when you first wake and take note instead of how you feel after you have been up for about ten minutes — many people find those first waking moments difficult to cope with . |
| 27 | Myra Hindley has been in prison for my whole life : I 'm twenty-two now and she 's been in for twenty-two years . |
| 28 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 29 | Maybe we 've just misunderstood , even though we 've been around for a long time , my own trades council in Battersea and Wandsworth celebrated its hundredth anniversary this year . |
| 30 | It 's ages since we 've been out for a drink together , ’ Laura enthused . |