Example sentences of "[vb base] been [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've been here for years and this is the first conversation I 've had with a human for simply ages . |
| 2 | " You 've been away for ages , " she says . |
| 3 | We 've been pally for years Sadie . |
| 4 | Mhm cos they 've been there for ages have n't they Mary do n't you think ? |
| 5 | I have been here for decades untold in this court , never leaving it except in my mind , ranging to far stars yet never truly experiencing those elsewheres . |
| 6 | ‘ But some of them have been here for ages , ’ she remonstrated . |
| 7 | ‘ The Arbuthnots have been here for generations . |
| 8 | These have been here for months |
| 9 | It seems as though we have been away for years . |
| 10 | They are there ; they have been there for years . |
| 11 | Rocks look more natural if you bed them into the gravel slightly , as if they have been there for years . |
| 12 | that have been there for years have n't they ? |
| 13 | No footings were laid — the walls were built directly on the patio paving stones ; they have been there for years and I thought there was little chance of them subsiding . |