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 | And yes , he 'd been working there for several days . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd been working solidly for eighteen months , ’ she pointed out . |
| 4 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Bert Millichip , the FA chairman , claimed that the decision to seed England in Cagliari had been made purely for footballing reasons . |
| 9 | Bert Millichip , the FA chairman , claimed that the decision to seed England in Cagliari had been made purely for footballing reasons . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Obviously Stirling had been lobbying hard for new blood . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | These patients had been treated earlier for pernicious anaemia in the same hospital between 1972 and 1985 . |
| 14 | He had been trembling violently for several hours but now no sound came from the place where he lay . |
| 15 | Later she worked out that she had been kept underground for four months . |
| 16 | His tenure of the post was short : his health had been declining progressively for several months as a result of overwork , and he died 5 February 1882 at his home at 7 Cornwall Street , Edinburgh . |
| 17 | Bodie was making eyes at the girl , and had been doing so for most of the hearing . |
| 18 | He was John Brown , a miner who had been entombed alone for 23 days . |
| 19 | Later my surgeon was to tell me that the cancer had been growing away for many years . |
| 20 | Another factor which made Russian foreign policy different in kind from that of the other Great Powers in 1880 was that , like Great Britain ( with whom she often came into conflict over them ) , she had great extra-European interests , both in the Far East and central Asia , where her territories , influence and commerce had been growing steadily for twenty years . |
| 21 | He reported that £1,000 had been set aside for proper surfacing of paths at Radford Park . |
| 22 | The only substantial aid received by the government so far had been $300,000,000 from the United States agreed by the US Congress in May 1990 [ see p. 37450 ] , which had been gradually disbursed , except for $50,000,000 which had been set aside for clearing debt arrears . |
| 23 | On the earlier date , Bob Spence bought much-neglected Swordfish HS554 that had been standing outside for 22 years . |
| 24 | Not until she had been sitting there for several minutes did Isabel realise that no sound at all had come from her torn and bleeding lips . |
| 25 | Where discovery methods were applied in schools which had been designed specifically for child-centred learning , the change was even more apparent . |
| 26 | We had been hillwalking together for several years , and by this time were well aware of the strengths and weaknesses of each other 's paces . |
| 27 | She knew about Cormac of the Wolves , her great-grandfather , who had been exiled here for five years , and she knew about the others as well : Niall of the Nine Hostages , caught and chained and kept prisoner with nine faithful Lords until he broke out and regained the Throne . |
| 28 | The band had been playing together for two years , at school dances , in pubs and as support at a couple of bigger concerts , but they 'd never been written about before . |
| 29 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 30 | One afternoon , after they had been travelling together for several days , Cleo ordered Dauntless to pull Contralto to a halt . |