Example sentences of "been [adv] for [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is quite often the cause of the ‘ 1701 — hard disk error ’ reported during Power On Self Test when the drive is cold which miraculously seems to cure itself when the system has been on for a while and the drive has warmed up ’ . |
| 2 | You 've not been on for a while have you ? |
| 3 | Good you 've not been on for a while either have you ? |
| 4 | you see , if you put a line it costs you about a hundred a thirty quid now I think , but according to what they tell me , once a line has been in for a year if you put a line in , you 've got to pay the first year , its got ta be in for a year , if you have it taken out before the year , you 'll still be due for the rental on it |
| 5 | But the they give it you at the end of the quarter , even if you have n't been in for a quarter . |
| 6 | After all , they had been together for a couple of years and she did idolise him . |
| 7 | Operating as Shadowfax Restaurants , the partnership has been together for a number of years , and currently has two Pizza Express outlets in Barnet and Finchley , and part ownership of a pizza restaurant in the West End of London . |
| 8 | She had been inside for a day . |
| 9 | This has been so for the Cape Verdians for close on 300 years , from the time when the original emigrants first found jobs on the North American whaling fleet . |
| 10 | And er if it 's more convenient , if you 've got er a lengthy inquiry , call into any tax office , the nearest one , I 've even called into tax offices when we 've been away for a weekend , just to pick up brochures and things like that . |
| 11 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
| 12 | The city has changed so much that anyone who has been away for a couple of years could be forgiven for thinking that he arrived in a time machine , not an airliner . |
| 13 | No , cos I 've been away for a couple of days . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Well , my husband 's been away for a while . |
| 16 | If anything , it has even more justified my decision to leave Coventry where I was manager and join Chelsea — I certainly could not have been away for a month if I 'd stayed at Highfield Road . |
| 17 | I 've been away for a week and I had about 70 messgaes to read . |
| 18 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 19 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 20 | 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 ! |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | When he 'd been home for a month . |
| 23 | You 've been off for a while . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He'd' 've had really , well this is the he goes back on Monday and he 've had a month off been off for a month . |
| 26 | ‘ I have n't been up for a while , ’ her father said , implying a total absence of mind , and some of body , too . |
| 27 | So the Stenness Hotel has been up for a while then . |
| 28 | 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 |
| 29 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 30 | It 's 0700 on the 30 June and my body has already been up for an hour and run four miles . |