Example sentences of "have [adv] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
| 2 | Another argument is that advertising has only been around for a while , so how can that be the reason for all our hang-ups , but that 's not true either . |
| 3 | Auntie Mavis has only been out for five to ten minutes twice cos of her knee . |
| 4 | ‘ Old Mr Fiddle has not been there for some time , Rose , ’ said Dagmar from the door . |
| 5 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
| 6 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |
| 7 | Low Birk Hatt Farm has always been home for my family . |
| 8 | Part of her power is that she has always been there for her children , part of her sadness is that they have betrayed that care by what she sees as dereliction of duty . |
| 9 | On Jan. 28 Goulding said that " one of the conditions which has always been there for the deployment of the UN force in Yugoslavia , namely a stable ceasefire , has now been fulfilled " , although there were still violations of the ceasefire , albeit " comparatively minor " ones . |
| 10 | Despite the fact that homoeopathy has now been around for close on two hundred years , very little research has been carried out either to attempt to understand how it works , or to prove that it does work . |
| 11 | ‘ He has n't been downstairs for over five years . |
| 12 | He has n't been round for a while , Andy , has he ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Well of course it 's not on , it has n't been on for weeks . |
| 15 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
| 16 | His father has n't been here for years . |
| 17 | Er , yes that was David , Robert has n't , Robert 's coming next weekend , but he has n't been here for a few weeks |
| 18 | A reader called to say she had a postcard dated 1910 which showed the fire with a notice saying : ‘ This fire has n't been out for over 200 years . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He has n't been out for days , ’ another boy said . |
| 20 | Mm and old Bob down the road , Bob , he has n't been in for about the same sort of time this 'll be his fourth week wo n't it ? |
| 21 | Johnson said : ‘ It just has n't been there for me . |
| 22 | No it has n't been there for a little while British National Corpus I 've been carrying it around with me |
| 23 | But she has n't been there for a few weeks now so I think she might be ill . |
| 24 | She has n't been there for about a month . |
| 25 | He has n't been home for twelve months |
| 26 | It has certainly been around for a hundred years , and it is probably the most vital of aspect of life as we know it today . |
| 27 | I 'd hardly been back for years — only briefly , when Mama died . |
| 28 | She seems to have always been there for me to run to . |
| 29 | But he had only been away for three days . |
| 30 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |