Example sentences of "[noun] had been [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 2 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 3 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 4 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 5 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 6 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 7 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 8 | She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night . |
| 9 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 10 | Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot . |
| 11 | The Orynthia had been away for eight months ; and only one member of the returning crew , we may not be surprised to hear , decided to risk a voyage in her again — George Groves , the boy apprentice . |
| 12 | But the man whom he promised to come back and visit had been there for twenty years , the oldest inhabitant , as the turnkey would tell newcomers ; he could play the piano and speak fluent French and Italian . |