Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [been] [adj] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 2 | She had been listless for some time and the woman could only hope that moving her right away from the influence of the people she went around with into these beautiful surroundings might bring her back to herself . |
| 3 | She had been homesick for this city , and the years of marriage to Nahum slipped away . |
| 4 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 5 | As it was , this first ever trip on a narrow boat looked like being her last , and she had been asleep for most of it . |
| 6 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 7 | She had been ill for some time and , driving back again to Cardiff to join my father , I reflected on the sadness that parents can never know what their children owe them . |
| 8 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 9 | They had been married for more years than she and Rob had lived . |
| 10 | They had been dead for several days when police were called in by neighbours in the millionaire 's district of Rancho Sante Fe , near San Diego , California . |
| 11 | It had been empty for several years and was dirty , damp and severely vandalised . |
| 12 | But we were moving in different directions and it had been clear for some while that we stayed together out of habit . |
| 13 | In fact it had been open for some time already as had half a dozen other places within easy walk because America believes in man 's inalienable right to eat whenever he is awake . |
| 14 | It had been silent for several minutes . |
| 15 | In London , just before the war , almost no one had heard of Paul Klee , although in Germany he had been famous for some years . |
| 16 | He had been unwell for some time and had now gone into a state of collapse . |
| 17 | He had been asleep for some time , physically exhausted after his ordeal , but now he tossed and turned , held fast in the grip of some awful nightmare . |
| 18 | He had been asleep for less than half an hour . |
| 19 | Even her father 's death a month ago had n't really affected her , because he had been ill for such a long time that nobody could be sorry that the end had come . |
| 20 | He had been ill for many months and his five-year term would not have been renewed at the National People 's Congress which starts on Monday . |
| 21 | He had been ill for some time . |
| 22 | He had been ill for some time , and passed away peacefully on 12 April . |
| 23 | And if in this new life he was to be alone … well , he had been alone for most of his life . |