Example sentences of "been [adv] for a [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | No , cos I 've been away for a couple of days . |
| 13 | ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Well , my husband 's been away for a while . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I 've been away for a week and I had about 70 messgaes to read . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When he 'd been home for a month . |
| 19 | You 've been off for a while . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ I have n't been up for a while , ’ her father said , implying a total absence of mind , and some of body , too . |
| 23 | So the Stenness Hotel has been up for a while then . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 26 | an injection and been back for a check up , yes it 's a good thirty pounds , you ca n't step in the door really without twenty five pounds . |
| 27 | Not since he 's been back for a week . |
| 28 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |
| 29 | AS part of the Midland Railway Centre 's development the Narrow Gauge Railway Project has been underway for a number of years with volunteers working to re-create a length of line to both carry passengers into the Country Park and demonstrate the uses of this track gauge . |
| 30 | ‘ You been out for a joyride , Preston ? ’ he had a deep , lazy voice . |