Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] had been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 2 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 3 | No one who had ever stood on the edge of that abyss where she had been teetering for so long , that held hunger and cold , sickness that could not be treated for lack of a shilling , children one could afford neither to raise nor to bury , would have a harsh word to say . |
| 4 | Bruce 's forces were defeated first in Methven wood by the English , and then beside Loch Tay by Comyn 's uncle , the Lord of Lorn The king 's sister and the Countess of Buchan who had crowned him were dragged out of sanctuary where they had been sent for safety , and exhibited in cages hanging from castle walls at Roxburgh and Berwick . |
| 5 | Uscfrea and Yffi died in infancy in Gaul among the Franks , where they had been sent for greater safety ( HE 11 , 20 ) . |
| 6 | Writing to the Countess of Rutland in 1670 from his ‘ uncouth cell ’ in the Fleet prison , where he had been committed for debt , Crowe was scathing about the quality of the tapestries produced by William , Earl of Craven [ q.v. ] , and his associates who had taken over from him at Mortlake in 1667 . |
| 7 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 8 | Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots . |
| 9 | The motif was most probably introduced into Persia from China — where it had been used for centuries as a symbol of peace and tranquillity — and has subsequently been adapted to fulfil both the schematic and symbolic requirements of Islamic weavers . |
| 10 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 11 | When I replied that I had been fighting for the extra 200,000 I had managed to achieve , I was remonstrated with for having put the business at risk . |
| 12 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |
| 13 | He confirmed that she had been invited for both the church service and the lunch . |
| 14 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 15 | Checking through her notes , the doctor saw that she had been treated for vaginal thrush on several occasions . |
| 16 | And in Amabel 's experience it had always been the wife who complained of it , Ethel Lord , for instance , fretting herself into a decline , or very nearly , when her husband had taken to spending so much time in Leeds ; Maria Colclough turning to religion because her man emerged so rarely from his counting house ; even strident Lizzie Braithwaite complaining that she had been neglected for the sake of the business . |
| 17 | And Anjelica Huston returned to her own home saying that she had been humiliated for the very last time . |
| 18 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 19 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 20 | But although they had been settled for the moment the two great political problems of the next half-century had already been foreshadowed : first , the tensions within the Angevin family ; second , the feudal question of the relationship between lord and vassal , between Capetian and Angevin . |
| 21 | They may not have found quite the soulmate in each other that they had been looking for , but their relationship has made up for it in other ways . |
| 22 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 23 | His wife now feared that they had been punished for his presumption . |
| 24 | The UAE news agency WAM reported that they had been expelled for " activities which harm relations between the two countries including the fabrication of false reports about the Sudanese community in the UAE " . |
| 25 | A judge told William Sim and David Todd that they had been playing for high stakes and had to pay the penalty . |
| 26 | Items generated internally would be recorded once they had been authorised for issue . |
| 27 | No regular services had been held in it for many years , although it had been used for funerals and the occasional service , remaining open for visitors and pilgrims to Cell-y-bedd and the shrine . |
| 28 | Although he had been nominated for the presidency by Civic Forum ( of which he was a founder member ) and PAV , it was understood that he would remain strictly neutral in the election campaign . |
| 29 | Although he had been immersed for days in Ridley 's exotic tale , searching out the coiling roots of Coleridge 's Kubla Khan , and although he knew intellectually that so many of these stories and poems were impregnated with an unconscious symbolism which later adventures into the human psyche were to make so much more explicit , he was temperamentally incapable of seeing the hidden meaning within this laborious passing from the ‘ dungeon of lust ’ into the pellucidly clear air of the mountains of Tasgi where voices shouted in exultation . |
| 30 | They were then very pleased to read in the book that it had been done for the very same reasons . |