Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [be] [verb] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan had been to leave hospital for a few days , beginning the next day . |
| 2 | A woman who knew her told the court the girl had been abusing solvents for some time . |
| 3 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 4 | He claimed later that he had done so for the reason that a few months earlier he had sold a stallion to Dunlop which had died within a few weeks and that his motive had been to recompense Dunlop for his loss . |
| 5 | Consequently , the sample group had been using heroin for an average of five years when they were interviewed . |
| 6 | Given that most of the interviewee group had been using heroin for between four and five years , most had contacted their GP , and frequently several different GPs , on a number of occasions . |
| 7 | Another person had been offered £50 for a voucher and the other £30 . |
| 8 | Although Kerrey 's campaign was lifted by this success , on the following day it suffered a setback when it was revealed that a restaurant chain of which he was part-owner had been fined $64,000 for 116 violations of child protection laws . |
| 9 | The government 's Technical Commission had been given responsibility for providing the mechanism for an orderly poll for which 130,000,000 lei ( about US$6,500,000 ) was set aside . |
| 10 | Poland had been trapped in a time capsule , and try as it might to struggle free , the parameters of its political and spiritual life had been set firm for years to come by the humiliation of invisibility . |
| 11 | Tommy cook had been plaguing Pinner for months . |
| 12 | The chairman had been introducing people for an eternity , and still no sign of him . |
| 13 | The abattoir had been fighting closure for years after increased European competition began to hit . |