Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been living together for many years . |
| 2 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 3 | And yes , he 'd been working there for several days . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd been working solidly for eighteen months , ’ she pointed out . |
| 5 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 6 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
| 7 | Because both test and control groups had been singled out for special attention a group pride had developed and this became the motivation for improved performance . |
| 8 | All the frustration and anger that had been bottled up for 16 years were suddenly out . |
| 9 | Not once , but six separate times … and now he had been warned off for good . |
| 10 | Looks as though it had been cut out for some reason . |
| 11 | Searle was not the only person at this time to conclude that since the Lefevre Gallery had told Minton ‘ Moons are out ’ , he had been searching round for new solutions which visits abroad solved only temporarily . |
| 12 | Written application had been made in advance , and , except for four theses on loan , all had been collected together for this study either within the thesis area or in the thesis collection area of the Stack , to which access was permitted on this occasion . |
| 13 | Len Daniels had been given up for dead by his wife . |
| 14 | She had assumed , when she was told that Mills ' murder had been checked thoroughly for any spying connections , that the enquiry had at least had the semblance of efficiency , if not diligence . |
| 15 | Toleration as wide-ranging as this would not have been acceptable in England , where hostility to Roman Catholicism had been building up for seventy years since Mary Tudor 's attempt to wipe out Protestantism . |
| 16 | The double bed had been made up for two and there were two pyjama cases — relics of a past time — one embroidered with the letter ‘ I ’ , the other with an ‘ A ’ . |
| 17 | It was believed that the treaty had been made simply for private gain , and this view was given substance by Isabella 's appropriation of much of the £20,000 payment from Bruce . |
| 18 | Bert Millichip , the FA chairman , claimed that the decision to seed England in Cagliari had been made purely for footballing reasons . |
| 19 | Bert Millichip , the FA chairman , claimed that the decision to seed England in Cagliari had been made purely for footballing reasons . |
| 20 | It was as large a set as had been developed earlier for general use , except for the London area ( where a few larger sets had been installed in the 1930s and some larger sets of somewhat antiquated design were also completed by the BEA in its early years ) , There were , however , doubts about the flexibility in start-up and shut-down times for the new 60MW and other new designs , and a fortiori about more advanced designs . |
| 21 | Obviously Stirling had been lobbying hard for new blood . |
| 22 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
| 23 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 24 | One manager felt the changes had been rushed through for political reasons , had overwhelmed staff and brought ‘ no major instant successes ’ . |
| 25 | These patients had been treated earlier for pernicious anaemia in the same hospital between 1972 and 1985 . |
| 26 | But meanwhile , the hospital workers had been dug in for another kind of long war which ca n't be won the miners ' way . |
| 27 | He had been trembling violently for several hours but now no sound came from the place where he lay . |
| 28 | Later she worked out that she had been kept underground for four months . |
| 29 | Armenia is begging Russia to recommission two old reactors that had been shut down for good in 1988 under popular pressure . |
| 30 | Both the NRC and the SPG and its equivalents had been known about for some time . |