Example sentences of "'ve [be] in [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh Well we 've just come back from America we 've been in America for three years . |
| 2 | ‘ People are saying , if you 've been in existence for two and a half years , perhaps you 've got something about you , ’ he says . |
| 3 | But I said , that they 've been in bathrooms for years like ! |
| 4 | They 've been in England for less than 12 hours but Janos Bunta and his Romanian friends are already up to their elbows in flour and pastry . |
| 5 | You 've been in bed for eight o'clock last night it 's now nine what 's that , thirteen odd hours ? |
| 6 | We 've been in love for a long time — well , I have anyway . ’ |
| 7 | he said in spite of the fact that I 've been in parliament for longer than he has , which surprised me cos I would n't have thought so this is the young Winston Churchill of course so the Chinese man said to him erm oh well the reason for that was that he had a famous grandfather |
| 8 | Then there was Octavia Hill ( ‘ I 've been in conservation for about two years ’ ) , Dr Barnardo , Florence Nightingale and Charles Dickens . |
| 9 | I 've been in business for 43 years . |
| 10 | ‘ The British people will say to themselves : ‘ Well here 's a government that 's got a majority of 100 , they 've been in office for 10 years , they 've had all these opportunities , and at the end of 10 years all they can think of to do is to make individual attacks on the Leader of the Opposition . ’ |
| 11 | You 've been in office for four months . |
| 12 | You 'll be surprised to learn that I am still in Nanking : I 've been in hospital for 6 days with gastro-enteritis , but I 'm glad to say now I 'm fine , and am due to travel to Shanghai tomorrow . |
| 13 | is , is , in London and we deal with the British Section which is are the particular bits , but the prisoners have to be vatted and looked at and found by the International Secretaires , then they 're passed on to British Section who pass them on to us and a great deal of research goes into making sure that they really are truly prisoners of conscience , that they 've been in prison for some er possibly because of their belief or religion or their race erm and they 've not taken or advocated violence not taken part in or advocated violence and then , then they are full prisoners of conscience erm we maybe allocated them . |
| 14 | I 've been in prison for assault , robbery , shoplifting and burglary . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been in Australia for the entire time . |
| 16 | And er video camera and lighting among them and er they look as if they 've been in place for hours . |