Example sentences of "been [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | IT HAS been downhill for the past 13 months at Bond Corporation ever since the Lonrho chief , Tiny Rowland , unleashed his first poisoned arrow . |
| 2 | ARABELLA ASHLEY ( Portrait painters photographs , page 144 ) and her dog and best friend Clem , have been together for the last four years photographing features for Harpers & Queen . |
| 3 | They 've been together for the past six years — which she cites as one very good reason why she did n't fall for Craig McLachlan while playing his leading lady . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 6 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 7 | I 've been away for the past week and had loads of messages to come back to . |
| 8 | 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 ! |
| 9 | One of the , the tasks I have to do in May each year , is I write to the candidates who 've just taken a year off , who 've been away for the last two-thirds of a year , and I write to them and say , ‘ You 've been away for two-thirds of a year . |
| 10 | She 's been away for the last week or so |
| 11 | ( Lazing 's highly recommended if you 've been up for the 8.30am aerobics . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been up for the past three hours , ’ he said , looking me up and down rather coldly . |
| 13 | She had clearly been out for the evening . |
| 14 | Paula Harrison , of North Green , Staindrop , had been out for the evening with friends when she fell 15ft from the bridge into the Tees on Saturday . |
| 15 | You forget we 've got spies , all the staff on this ward tell Jim exactly what you 've been doing er , that 's , that 's how he knew you got your hair done , can we have five pounds , she 's just had her hair permed , the day before he 's just coming in and , no they sent to the ward can we have five pounds please your mum 's been out for the day and she 's had her lunch out you cost him a fortune and you say you 've never been anywhere |
| 16 | God Almighty , Nan , I 've been here for the past two hours without knowing hair nor hide of you . ’ |
| 17 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 18 | If the hon. and learned Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) had been here for the speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) |
| 19 | Can I just clarify one other point with the County Council and for the benefit of those who 've not been here for the last however many days . |
| 20 | ‘ … she 's been here for the best part of a week and you 're no further forward . ’ |
| 21 | The man who 's been here for the past three weekends , always at the same table , always alone and always gazing at you with those incredible dark eyes of his . ’ |
| 22 | And also that young chap 's been here for the van . |
| 23 | Because we 've been here for the discussion . |
| 24 | ‘ Why do n't you tell me about it ? — Sorry I have n't been around for the last couple of days . |
| 25 | In looking for the answers , let us begin with those citizens who have been around for the longest time — the elderly and those in later middle age . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The drug has been around for the last 20 years , but this is the first time the research has been carried out over such a lengthy period . |
| 28 | It 's a new one that 's only just been around for the last fifty years . |
| 29 | She has been there for the past 10 years . |
| 30 | The flesh itself ranges from the blood red of the arriviste joint to the dull browny-purple bloom of those that have been there for the full three weeks . |