Example sentences of "[pron] had [been] [adj] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 2 | When we entered the local office to add yet more to my daughter 's investments , the helpful cashier advised us to switch from her existing account , requiring 90 days ’ notice of withdrawals to an instant access ‘ Prime Gold ’ account which had been available for some time , and in fact paid higher interest . |
| 3 | An example of this is the case of a lady of forty-five who attended the clinic with neuralgia which had been present for some years . |
| 4 | It nevertheless seems clear that the brand of Whiggery we associate with the Walpolean ascendancy of the 1720s and 1730s was very different from that which had been predominant for much of the later-Stuart period . |
| 5 | They were also helped into their new home by a team of volunteers who took on the task of cleaning the offices which had been empty for some time . |
| 6 | She had been listless for some time and the woman could only hope that moving her right away from the influence of the people she went around with into these beautiful surroundings might bring her back to herself . |
| 7 | She had been homesick for this city , and the years of marriage to Nahum slipped away . |
| 8 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 9 | As it was , this first ever trip on a narrow boat looked like being her last , and she had been asleep for most of it . |
| 10 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 11 | She had been ill for some time and , driving back again to Cardiff to join my father , I reflected on the sadness that parents can never know what their children owe them . |
| 12 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 13 | DeRoburt , 69 , who had been ill for several years , had been President of Nauru from independence in 1968 until 1989 , apart from short interludes in 1976-68 ( when he was Leader of the Opposition ) and 1986 . |
| 14 | From the day I first got an inkling of ‘ where babies come from ’ and taxed my mother with the proposition that I was therefore no relation to my father , I believed that it was me and me alone who had been responsible for all that pain and trouble called my birth . |
| 15 | He thought it better not to mention it was he who had been responsible for both his accidents . |
| 16 | All three were aware that the King and Queen had , after four years of war , come to represent to their subjects all that was best in the domestic and public virtues , and that there had been current for some time an idea of presenting to them a gift as a mark of national respect , thanks and loyalty . |
| 17 | They had been married for more years than she and Rob had lived . |
| 18 | They had been dead for several days when police were called in by neighbours in the millionaire 's district of Rancho Sante Fe , near San Diego , California . |
| 19 | It had been empty for several years and was dirty , damp and severely vandalised . |
| 20 | But we were moving in different directions and it had been clear for some while that we stayed together out of habit . |
| 21 | In fact it had been open for some time already as had half a dozen other places within easy walk because America believes in man 's inalienable right to eat whenever he is awake . |
| 22 | It had been silent for several minutes . |
| 23 | In London , just before the war , almost no one had heard of Paul Klee , although in Germany he had been famous for some years . |
| 24 | He had been unwell for some time and had now gone into a state of collapse . |
| 25 | He had been asleep for some time , physically exhausted after his ordeal , but now he tossed and turned , held fast in the grip of some awful nightmare . |
| 26 | He had been asleep for less than half an hour . |
| 27 | Even her father 's death a month ago had n't really affected her , because he had been ill for such a long time that nobody could be sorry that the end had come . |
| 28 | He had been ill for many months and his five-year term would not have been renewed at the National People 's Congress which starts on Monday . |
| 29 | He had been ill for some time . |
| 30 | He had been ill for some time , and passed away peacefully on 12 April . |