Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] [prep] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been gone for so long now . |
| 2 | The moment I 'd been waiting for so long had arrived . |
| 3 | For one thing Harlow is the sort of town which I 'd been agitating for both before and after the war whenever I was speaking on behalf of the Labour Party both at street corners and at public meetings on the type of life we vis envisaged for a normal person in the land . |
| 4 | And she cried out as a cascade of fireworks seemed to explode deep within her , before their bodies , now moving in perfect unison , recaptured the fierce , tumultuous pleasure they had always shared in the past — the total consummation which she had been denied for so long . |
| 5 | as if whatever he had done had cut him off from the mercy he had been seeking for so long . |
| 6 | He turned sharply from the french window and the view he had been looking at so intently . |
| 7 | A baby — and the designer Edouard had been searching for so long . |
| 8 | One reason for its universal acceptance is that whereas noble metals and precious stones first rose to prominence in the context of civilized societies ivory had been recognized for much longer . |
| 9 | The usefulness of having voice-parts in score , so that they could be played on a keyboard instrument ( as distinct from the highly embellished transcriptions ) or used ‘ for the study of counterpoint ’ , had been recognized at least as early as 1577 , when Gardano published two such volumes , one of Rore 's four-part madrigals , the other of miscellaneous pieces . |
| 10 | An inquest in the town was told yesterday that Swales , who had drunk six pints , had been seen at least once before trying to beat trains over the unmanned crossing . |
| 11 | Twenty-four theses from data set C recorded no consultations , but had been cited at least once . |
| 12 | Innovations in the curriculum included vocal music and Natural Science ( though lectures on Geology , Chemistry , and Zoology had been arranged since as early as 1871 ) . |
| 13 | Ellie ran upstairs , threw off her old blouse and skirt and her much darned stockings , and got hurriedly dressed in her Sunday best , yet another variation on the plain black dress with detachable collar and cuffs she had been wearing for as long as she could remember . |
| 14 | In 1983 , despite the evident risks , and with claims that Kharg Island had been destroyed at least once , loadings continued . |
| 15 | Requisition of grain at the point of a gun during War Communism had proved a novel experience for the peasantry , but by 1922 that had been replaced by slightly more civilized methods . |
| 16 | The Right Hon John Patten MP , Minister of State for the Home Office ( right ) , comments that , ‘ Victim Support has deservedly grown fast because it meets a long-standing and deep need that had been neglected for far too long . |
| 17 | The crisis had been brewing for so long , however , that the tsar could not be bought off with a decision on the Holy Places . |
| 18 | There was commotion in the hall when it was realized that Lenin 's heir had been adulated for so long against Lenin 's own better judgment . |
| 19 | Erm so it had been thought about quite seriously . |
| 20 | She welcomed the work done and the fact that so many people who had been waiting for so long had been treated , but was concerned that health workers who had been working flat out to reduce the lists would not be able to maintain their work rate . |
| 21 | To a certain extent , age was an important factor in that the older user was more likely to have reached the stage in his or her career where all the other options had been tried at least once . |
| 22 | Sensing this , the Coal Board struck what was intended to be a mortal blow — refusing to carry out the preventative works and offering us a mere £25,000 towards past damage which had been estimated at well over £100,000 . |
| 23 | City investors accepted shares on condition that all could be placed but by last night potential buyers had been found for only about half the stake . |
| 24 | To help matters along , boarders had been resorted to once more : a warehouseman from Hammersmith and a wheelwright from Norfolk were helping the Titfords pay the bills . |
| 25 | No one who had ever stood on the edge of that abyss where she had been teetering for so long , that held hunger and cold , sickness that could not be treated for lack of a shilling , children one could afford neither to raise nor to bury , would have a harsh word to say . |
| 26 | The conference had been postponed at least twice since November reportedly for " logistical reasons " . |
| 27 | In some cases that were drawn to the attention of the Juridical and Human Rights Commission of the main Protestant organization ( CEPAD ) , people had been held for as long as three months without being interrogated . |
| 28 | Not surprisingly the British economy had been growing at only about half the average annual rate of 5.4 per cent for the EEC countries since 1953 . |
| 29 | ’ — and the Project had been going for so long , you see . |
| 30 | But already her mind was full of him , her triumph shrinking , slipping between her fingers like that future of silk and satin and feathered bonnets she had been dreaming about so eagerly an hour ago . |