Example sentences of "[pron] have [be] [adj] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ She 'd been ill for a long time . |
| 32 | You 've been asleep for a long time . ’ |
| 33 | She had been married for the last two years , to a man who really was a sewage plant manager ( Slater was quite hurt that Graham thought he 'd invented this detail for the sake of a joke ) . |
| 34 | She felt heavy-lidded and drowsy , as if she had been asleep for a week . |
| 35 | She had been worried for a bit but now she was certain . |
| 36 | All she knew was that she had been miserable for the rest of the night , and only a teasing conversation with him the next afternoon , when he was dressed very casually in blue jeans and a white T-shirt , had cheered her up again . |
| 37 | She had been ready for the road , then Mr Arthur died . |
| 38 | Together they started to laugh , the deep chuckle and the dry whispery cackle rolling past the monks , who returned with a start to their praying ; past Bridhe , Elizabeth , Marion , Hector and his young attendants , the women , clan officers , nephews , cousins , clansmen great and common , clustered weeping at the death-bed of the man who had been chief for the whole life-time of most of them . |
| 39 | As they were mainly couples who had been married for a number of years and were now able to move to a larger , more expensive home , their children ranged in age between seven and nineteen years . |
| 40 | It was Allen he asked as though he believed it was he who had been responsible for the verderer 's disappearance . |
| 41 | There may be a certain exaggeration in the statement that Napoleon had offered a reward for the taking of ‘ the English incendiary ‘ Kvinn or Quin ’ who had been responsible for the burning of three French battleships in the Gulf of Villefranche last year ’ but the sixteen year-old 's behaviour while in prison in Toulon is entirely in keeping with what we know about him : |
| 42 | Two other Grand Councillors , appointed at the same time , were Leslie Edwards , who had been responsible for the organisation of the Cardiff gathering , and Alec Taylor , who had been a member of the BDDA since 1907 , and a Vice-president since 1937 . |
| 43 | The task of implementing this change of policy fell on Roger Brown , then editor in succession to Ralph Gee , who had been responsible for the printing of the paper for many years and edited it for a short period . |
| 44 | Developed by a team of ex-Digital Research programmers , mainly people who had been responsible for the GEM environment , it was taken on by Xerox who , much to everyone 's amazement , managed to market the product worldwide . |
| 45 | Her brow furrowed on the realisation that it was Niall who had been responsible for the last-minute change of plans . |
| 46 | But it is likely that the professionals who have been responsible for the running of such companies at local level will have been allied to the more liberal group among the upper protestant classes , as represented by such families as the O'Neills , who have looked to the English public schools for the right sort of education . |
| 47 | At the very least , the discipline of being involved in some form of training will help counteract the feeling of lethargy that creeps over many people who have been unemployed for a long while — a characteristic which is very counterproductive in an interview . |
| 48 | You have been asleep for the past two hours . ’ |
| 49 | If you have been unemployed for a while seek retraining as a first step to a new , positive attitude . |
| 50 | She 's absolutely livid that she 's been freezing for no reason at all . |
| 51 | A : Oh no they lived in Canada eh he was married to my mother 's sister + + well she 's been dead for a number of years now + |
| 52 | For example , we have been thankful for the improvement in the quality of our air with the development of clean air zones , but we must not be complacent . |
| 53 | Their exploits have been greatly exaggerated by Burmese writers , but I do n't think British writers have adequately recognised the courage demanded to revolt , or possibly we have been jealous for the unswerving loyalty through defeat as well as victory of Karens , Kachins and Chins . |
| 54 | and , and if she 's already scared of his temper and they 've not even lived together , well they have lived together for quite a while actually so I mean it 's not like they do n't know each other but once they 're married and they 've been married for a couple of years I reckon , and he starts thinking of her more as a possession sort of thing I can , I can really imagine |
| 55 | As two young married couples they had been close for a time when they lived near Stoke , although Carole had not got on at all well with Amaranth . |
| 56 | And they say I ca n't remember it just happened so quick that I ca n't remember , they have been unconscious for a , it may be just a split second , it 's affected the brain , they are concussed . |
| 57 | They have been responsible for the building of the Kings Reach Complex in Ramsay . |
| 58 | When asked why she allowed the computer so to dominate in this way , she replied ‘ It 's the first time they have been quiet for a whole week ! ’ , reflecting the second cause in the list above . |
| 59 | they have been excited for a bit of money and end up with nowt , sending you letters |
| 60 | Joining Rhenania in 1973 , he has been responsible for the company 's finance and accounts since 1976 . |