Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] been for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer . |
| 2 | They 'd been for a meal and they came to the flat and they rung us to say they were there . |
| 3 | Cos they 'd been for a meal on the way as well ! |
| 4 | The 1480s show an average comparable with the 1430s , although this figure is probably depressed by the bad years of 1482 and 1483 in the latter year prices were higher than they had been for a century , and wages did not rise proportionately . |
| 5 | One afternoon after they had been for a swim together , Sycorax said , as Ariel took her on her back again , grunting for the old woman had grown so much heavier , it seemed , since her immersion , ‘ You are having the red man 's child . ’ |
| 6 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 7 | The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent . |
| 8 | Last time it had been for a length of dress material . |