Example sentences of "[vb base] been for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if China really is now backing peace and free elections , the signs are more hopeful than they 've been for a decade . |
| 2 | Just even I 've been for a wee ! |
| 3 | You 've been for a walk eh ? |
| 4 | I 've been for an interview with Mencap . |
| 5 | Here in Scotland I 'm old enough to get married without my parent 's permission , and have been for a year . |
| 6 | If two systems have been for a period of time in dynamical isolation from each other , then a measurement on the first system can produce no real change in the second . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | If it had n't have been for the policeman there would have been untold carnage . ’ |
| 9 | Most of them , perhaps , were doctors , government servants of one degree or another ; a few were farmers ( I can think of one , still remembered ) and some were just friends , as I myself have been for the Bakgatia and , I hope , for the whole new country of Botswana . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Half of all the records since 1947 have been for the period mid-February to mid-April , particularly March , with 30 per cent. , which suggests that there is a fairly regular , although small , spring movement through the county . |
| 12 | As far as is known all the records have been for the period spring to autumn . |
| 13 | Wintering birds favour coastal farmland and marshes and a high proportion of recent records have been for the Selsey peninsular , the Beachy Head area , and from Rye to the Midrips . |