Example sentences of "been [adv] for a " 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 | She 's act she er they 've been down for a for a flying visit , I think , th they like to fly and fly back because it gets th the fre used to the freedom . |
| 5 | It was n't enough ; it had n't been enough for a long time . |
| 6 | He had only been in for a few nights after his first summer holiday in the five years I 'd owned him . |
| 7 | I did n't know Julia had n't been in for a long while . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | But the they give it you at the end of the quarter , even if you have n't been in for a quarter . |
| 10 | If they have been together for a whole day or days in conference or retreat then there is a dynamic already present . |
| 11 | er just one after thought , Dennis mentioned teamwork , now we we 've been together for a few years basically , but you might say , we work as a team , everyone gets on , everyone helps each other out . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | After all , they had been together for a couple of years and she did idolise him . |
| 14 | And , as I say , we 've been together for a long time and the appointment , the changeover of the appointments |
| 15 | She had been inside for a day . |
| 16 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been away for a day or two ; I lost me father . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | We 've been away for a long time . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , my husband 's been away for a while . |
| 22 | ‘ After all , you 've been away for a long time , and you know the old saying — ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
| 24 | ‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy . |
| 25 | I 've been away for a week and I had about 70 messgaes to read . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | No , cos I 've been away for a couple of days . |
| 28 | The new Landrat of Gunzenhausen , a former Franconian bastion of National Socialism , wrote in his first monthly report after the end of the Third Reich , in August 1945 : ‘ Although the war has only been over for a few months , National Socialism is hardly ever spoken about , and when at all , only in a negative sense . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | No , Lindsey told herself , as she showered and slipped into a warm towelling robe , it had actually been over for a long time . |