Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [adj] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I tried being polite for a long time , Aunt Ruth , and it got me nowhere . |
| 2 | Incidentally , although Fei called his book Peasant Life in China , he made no pretence that the social system he described was typical for the whole country . |
| 3 | I think he 'd been better for a long time on and off |
| 4 | It was difficult to explain , but he 'd been uneasy for the last few minutes : not an emotion he 'd ever had much experience of before . |
| 5 | But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something . |
| 6 | ‘ She 'd been ill for a long time . |
| 7 | There was a sort of thirstiness about Julia 's immersion in the conversation , as though she 'd been parched for a long time . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd been miserable for a long time . |
| 9 | The odds were always against Oxford at Villa Park … trailing by a goal from the first leg United were desperate for a flying start … they were nearly grounded in the opening minutes by Dean Saunders … |
| 10 | But in the aftermath of the war , Robertson and Alan Sked were responsible for a political blunder which put them in the news again . |
| 11 | The colours she chose were black for the main colour and a dark multi-coloured yarn for the second colour . |
| 12 | He had been dry for the past twenty years . |
| 13 | Indeed , as administrator Myra Hickey points out , when the Labour council was elected in 1986 one of its manifesto commitments had been to bring back the festival which had been absent for the previous two years owing to the council reclaiming its original site . |
| 14 | Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain . |
| 15 | If it had been possible for the old Castle to grow darker , Grainne thought it would have done so in the hour that followed . |
| 16 | Together they started to laugh , the deep chuckle and the dry whispery cackle rolling past the monks , who returned with a start to their praying ; past Bridhe , Elizabeth , Marion , Hector and his young attendants , the women , clan officers , nephews , cousins , clansmen great and common , clustered weeping at the death-bed of the man who had been chief for the whole life-time of most of them . |
| 17 | When the silence had been undisturbed for a long , chilly while he crept out of his nest and drew himself gently up the last few yards of broken rock into the long grass and bushes at the edge of the plateau . |
| 18 | Iain Ogilvy McWhirter ( Senior English and Religious Instruction ) had been asleep for the past ten minutes , but Tom Tedder ( Art and Woodwork ) said ‘ Arrgh ’ through closed lips , and that seemed to do well enough . |
| 19 | She had been married for the last two years , to a man who really was a sewage plant manager ( Slater was quite hurt that Graham thought he 'd invented this detail for the sake of a joke ) . |
| 20 | She was worried about her husband ; it had been obvious for the past few days that something was preying on his mind . |
| 21 | Journalist Meredith Oakley , of the Arkansas Gazette in the Clintons ' home state , said : ‘ If America had been ready for a female President she would have run herself . |
| 22 | He was dressed in work clothes — tailored dark grey trousers and a cream shirt — but the latter was open at the neck and he wore no tie , suggesting that he had been ready for a relaxing Friday evening drink . |
| 23 | Old John Knox had been ill for a long time and , two years after I joined the firm , he was told that he must retire . |
| 24 | Stable jockey Chris Grant said : ‘ He had been ill for a long while , but carried on because his horses were his life . ’ |
| 25 | But the poor woman had been ill for a long time , although we had not realized it , and died soon after Hareton was born . |
| 26 | He had been ill for a short time and when uremic poisoning developed , he was moved to a private ward in the Moose Jaw General Hospital . |
| 27 | She knew the woman had been dead for a long time . |
| 28 | Ty Fach had been dead for a long time . |
| 29 | Bill Muggeridge , he noted with regret , had been free for the first hour , when Pumfrey and Fenniway had been busy with the Fromes , but was not free again until after lunch . |
| 30 | Klein had been responsible for a controversial sale to the Daimler-Benz engineering firm of city-owned land in central Berlin , and had co-operated closely with the Treuhand agency responsible for administering and selling-off state-owned industrial property in eastern Germany . |