Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [been] [verb] [prep] many " in BNC.
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| 1 | To judge by the clutter of bottles , glasses , and over-filled ashtrays , and the brooding , weary faces , they had been debating for many hours . |
| 2 | She had brought glasses and dishes from home , she said ; they had been boxed for many years too long . |
| 3 | They had been provided for many years by the YWCA , and other urban based and normally middle class-run charitable societies dispensing relief and assistance . |
| 4 | With debates about feminism and culture it had been seen by many as the key to understanding our current dilemmas . |
| 5 | The garden city lobby alleged that the vested interests of London had worked against a decentralist approach , for which it had been striving for many years , and F.J. Osborn acknowledged in correspondence with Lewis Mumford that the Plan was a bitter disappointment to him and the Town and Country Planning Association ( TCPA ) : |
| 6 | Meanwhile it had been fitted to many warships and liners , including the Scandinavian and Lusitania . |
| 7 | It had been used for many years as a staff hostel for an Oxford Street department store . |
| 8 | As a young man he had been pursued by many women ; that he secretly despised them did not lessen his attractiveness but in later years his large family and increasing years had hung about him with a weight as great as any deformity : but he would never risk exposing himself as Rose had . |
| 9 | He did n't mind admitting that he was attracted to Phil Prior , but then he had been attracted to many girls in the past . |