Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.

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1 We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow .
2 They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long .
3 They 'd been almost-friends for six years .
4 They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently .
5 They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets .
6 They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways .
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