Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [adj] for a [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 | But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something . |
| 3 | ‘ She 'd been ill for a long time . |
| 4 | There was a sort of thirstiness about Julia 's immersion in the conversation , as though she 'd been parched for a long time . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd been miserable for a long time . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | But in the aftermath of the war , Robertson and Alan Sked were responsible for a political blunder which put them in the news again . |
| 8 | Many of the classic economic and social indicators of fertility decline had been present for a long time in nineteenth-century Britain . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Stable jockey Chris Grant said : ‘ He had been ill for a long while , but carried on because his horses were his life . ’ |
| 14 | But the poor woman had been ill for a long time , although we had not realized it , and died soon after Hareton was born . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She knew the woman had been dead for a long time . |
| 17 | Ty Fach had been dead for a long time . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | In the meantime , plans had been afoot for a combined British and American force , known as the Allied First Army , to land on French North African shores — this occurred on 8th , November 1942 , and those forces moved eastward towards the advancing British Eighth Army . |