Example sentences of "[noun] and had been [verb] for " in BNC.

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1 Tim , from Great Sankey , was a dedicated fan of the club and had been shopping for an Everton strip on the day of the Bridge Street bombing .
2 This had a separate entrance and had been used for many purposes — the storage of deeds by the Wilts and Dorset Bank , prior to this by Mr. Peru , a solicitor , but when I was a small boy it had been leased to The Haunch of Venison Inn as a wine store and bottling plant .
3 She 'd moved over by the window and had been reaching for a chair , but now she stopped .
4 Three additional parents reported that they worked on contract at nuclear sites and had been monitored for exposure to radiation before their child was diagnosed ( one father of a case , after conception ; one father of a control , before conception ; one mother of a control , before conception ) .
5 In those days the paper had sold 5.25 million copies and had been respected for its powerful , picture-led campaigning journalism , its commitment to the Labour Party , and the chord it struck with its primarily working-class readership .
6 The inquest heard that Leonie had been seen regularly by her GP and had been referred for psychiatric treatment .
7 The plant , built in 1974 , had a poor safety record and had been closed for a two-year period following a failure in the control system in 1985 , and could no longer provide electricity at a competitive price .
8 As an amateur jockey Pip has had eight National hunt wins this season and had been challenging for the Ladies Championship .
9 The twins had wandered out of the rectory garden and had been missing for twenty minutes .
10 Mr Waterworth worked for an agency and had been driving for the Fewston Transport Company , of Skipton , at the time of the tragedy .
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