Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [been] [verb] for 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 | 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 ) : |
| 5 | It had been used for many years as a staff hostel for an Oxford Street department store . |