Example sentences of "[vb past] been [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
| 2 | ‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy . |
| 3 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 4 | I done it to I done it to Russell one night messing around and he told the girls in work I 'd been away for the weekend and he 'd had somebody else there honest to God he did ! |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | They demanded that everybody get out of their way so they could launch their boat , while people who 'd been there for the best of the tide were already bringing their craft out . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When he 'd been home for a month . |
| 9 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 12 | If the hon. and learned Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) had been here for the speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) |
| 13 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 14 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 15 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 16 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |
| 19 | After all , they had been together for a couple of years and she did idolise him . |
| 20 | Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She and Lewis had been out for a meal the night before . |
| 23 | If it had been out for a walk or you know ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |
| 27 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 28 | Sixty-two per cent of those in old people 's homes had been there for a year or more compared with 47 per cent of those in nursing homes , but this difference might have occurred by chance . |
| 29 | By the beginning of 1942 rapid expansion had taken place , so that by the end of that year there were some 3,293 staff of all grades , of whom 1,566 were service personnel and 1,727 civilian , and by the time that I had been there for a year there were over 5,000 in all . |
| 30 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |