Example sentences of "[vb past] be [adv] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Because Shiva , his father , who 'd been away for a long time , found him in the wife 's bedroom on his return and assumed that he was her toyboy . |
| 2 | They demanded that everybody get out of their way so they could launch their boat , while people who 'd been there for the best of the tide were already bringing their craft out . |
| 3 | Quail Eggs Arnold Bennett — perhaps the name should put one off , and what arrived was enough for a full meal , with much haddock , but the sauce was rather thick , reminding one of our party of a school-sanatorium dinner . |
| 4 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 5 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 6 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 7 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 8 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 9 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |
| 10 | Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month . |
| 11 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 12 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 13 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
| 14 | I remember when my school opened , or just before it did , erm I got the staff together for a conference for a day , and got another East Sussex Head , James Quinn , who came along and talked to them , and one of the things he said was now for the next week or two , whatever John Werner says goes . |