Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] for the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 2 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 3 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |
| 4 | He said he 'd been followed for the last week or so . |
| 5 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 6 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 7 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 8 | In Scotland as a whole and in Edinburgh in particular , working-class women and girls mostly found themselves in work that in some sense extended their domestic role : housework , laundry , sewing , while better-educated middle-class women who worked were caring for the young and the sick as teachers and nurses . |
| 9 | We do not know precisely on what grounds , but it had already broken down by August 1093 , the date which had been fixed for the final settlement of differences between the kings of England and Scotland . |
| 10 | Then Andy took his wedge , which he had been swinging for the last ten minutes , and hit the perfect , or apparently perfect shot , straight at the flag . |
| 11 | At the time of the survey there was no drama specialist on the staff , although a drama/English teacher had been appointed for the next year . |
| 12 | In the early hours of Sunday 13 February 1692 , Captain Campbell , from a clan hostile to the Macdonalds , along with 120 of his soldiers , whom the Macdonalds had been entertaining for the previous fortnight , suddenly fell upon their hosts and butchered them , shooting Macdonald himself in the back and killing nearly 70 men , women and children . |
| 13 | But it was Raynor who told her things about the Castle she did not know ; how it had been built for the first High Queen of all , and how the ancient pure magic had been woven into its walls . |
| 14 | Some thought that far too many opulent and now half-empty movie palaces had been built for the elusive fashionable trade whilst others detected a more general dulling of the palate as the masses lost their enthusiasm for the old stories and seemed all too ready for something new . |
| 15 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 16 | None of the other parties apparently secured the 7 per cent minimum required to achieve representation , although five seats had been reserved for the two Christian Assyrian Parties . |
| 17 | The last two carriages of the 10.20am London-to-Oxford train had been reserved for the royal party . |
| 18 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 19 | Howard Samuel never had the courage to tell him that he had no recollection of their night-time conversation because of his post-prandial condition , so Randolph always regarded the fact that the licence had been obtained for the Labour Party as a gross breach of trust . |
| 20 | Mr Bennet warned that although good prices had been obtained for the contracting subsidiaries , it was not clear whether the banks and the secured bondholders would get all of their money back , and he was very cautious about whether there would be any dividend for the ordinary creditors , let alone the shareholders . |
| 21 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 22 | Last year , nearly £300 had been collected for the Spanish Fund , and within the space of a month , including Xmas no less than three large indoor meetings had been held , of which one was the Town Hall meeting at which one of the largest collections ever received at a Labour meeting in Leeds was taken up . |
| 23 | The trial had been featured for the previous three days . |
| 24 | That incident so many years ago when she had been punished for the supposed loss of the ring was etched indelibly in her mind . |
| 25 | Thornton had been pushing for the same sort of readership , and the two men had another thing in common — they wanted action . |
| 26 | Gorbachev , speaking at the closing ceremony , acknowledged that there were basic disagreements between the two sides , but thought the meeting had created ‘ opportunities for progress ’ ; Reagan thought that ‘ useful preliminary results ’ had been achieved , and hoped that further progress would be achieved at the meeting that had been arranged for the following year . |
| 27 | Initially , she had been ostracised in some quarters , and on several occasions when she had arranged a soiree , rival parties had been arranged for the same night . |
| 28 | There , temporary accommodation had been arranged for the rescued sect personnel in the local church hall and community centre , and for the captured heavies in the town jailhouse . |
| 29 | The prizewinner was presented with a cup , which had been given for the first time in 1987 . |
| 30 | Awards chairman Alan Peaford told the audience at Torquay that 1,266 entries , the second highest so far , had been received for the 1992 contest , from every continent except Antarctica . |