Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [adv prt] for [art] " 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 | Secondly , a while ago I mentioned that a guy called Alan Byrne had been over for a trial , in Elland Road , from Shamrock Rovers in Dublin . |
| 4 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 5 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 6 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 7 | So , eager to help , she went over to him , he had been around for a while but he was strange so nobody really spoke to him . |
| 8 | Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month . |
| 9 | Henry , morose , defiant and all but monosyllabic , had been out for a drink early in the evening , but had returned before nine with his younger brother , Francis , with whom he shared a small cottage . |
| 10 | She and Lewis had been out for a meal the night before . |
| 11 | If it had been out for a walk or you know ? |
| 12 | The party of young Australians had been out for a meal , and had stopped to take photographs , when Roermond 's market square echoed to gunfire . |
| 13 | Paula Harrison , of North Green , Staindrop , had been out for the evening with friends when she fell 15ft from the bridge into the Tees on Saturday . |
| 14 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |
| 15 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |