Example sentences of "has [adv] been [adv] for " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Old Mr Fiddle has not been there for some time , Rose , ’ said Dagmar from the door . |
2 | Even such an exalted pedigree as this , though , has not been enough for some of Britain 's big stores . |
3 | Low Birk Hatt Farm has always been home for my family . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | ‘ He has n't been downstairs for over five years . |
7 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
8 | His father has n't been here for years . |
9 | 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 |
10 | Johnson said : ‘ It just has n't been there for me . |
11 | No it has n't been there for a little while British National Corpus I 've been carrying it around with me |
12 | But she has n't been there for a few weeks now so I think she might be ill . |
13 | She has n't been there for about a month . |
14 | He has n't been home for twelve months |