Example sentences of "had [be] [verb] for the past " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 2 | The thieves took £80 that 73-year-old Peggy Metcalfe had been saving for the past three months . |
| 3 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 4 | The large dining room which had been airing for the past week had passed its final inspection although Mrs Lundy had insisted that the maids cleaned the windows and French doors one more time . |
| 5 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 6 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 7 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 8 | At the end of this campaign it looked at last as if the time of peace had come , when the Council for which Anselm had been pressing for the past four years could be held with royal support . |
| 9 | Other European countries said that the new British Government would be positive and co-operative and would put forward proposals for bringing about the completion of the European Community , for which they had been working for the past 40 years . |
| 10 | The second whinnied and moved back a step to graze the spot it had been coveting for the past hour . |