Example sentences of "[been] [adv] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 2 | They 've been together for the past six years — which she cites as one very good reason why she did n't fall for Craig McLachlan while playing his leading lady . |
| 3 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 5 | God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’ |
| 6 | The man who 's been here for the past three weekends , always at the same table , always alone and always gazing at you with those incredible dark eyes of his . ’ |
| 7 | And I wo n't spare a minute 's thought for the fact that Piers has n't been around for the entire day , and lord only knows what he 's getting up to with Nicole . |
| 8 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 9 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
| 10 | Well it 's been there for the past two weeks but now he 's gone to l get a house . |
| 11 | The flesh itself ranges from the blood red of the arriviste joint to the dull browny-purple bloom of those that have been there for the full three weeks . |
| 12 | Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month . |