Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] [to-vb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helen had been trying to learn for some time , but she found it very hard although Tony was endlessly patient with her . |
| 2 | Director Alvin Rakoff had problems with Crawford when it came to a crucial , very dramatic scene that he shared with Donald Pleasence , who was playing the police officer who could see a way to nailing the crook whom he had been trying to get for twenty years through his son . |
| 3 | It indicated for the first time that quantum theory , which had been developed to account for atomic phenomena , still remained successful when applied to nuclei , systems which are a hundred thousand times smaller . |
| 4 | He said BC had been authorised to negotiate for future contracts on the basis of supplying at a world market related price . |
| 5 | In his view it was disgusting that the union had been forced to battle for four years to win the day . |
| 6 | In February 1952 , The Musical Express bade farewell to its readers with a final issue that blazed proudly on its cover ‘ Tommy Dorsey For Olympic Games ’ , the accompanying story telling of how bandleader Dorsey and his orchestra had been booked to play for four hours daily at the games in Finland that summer . |
| 7 | Although the British offered assurances that they would still work towards freer trade relations as circumstances permitted , the multilateralists in Washington had been compelled to settle for much less than they would have liked . |
| 8 | I can recall , back in the early ‘ 80s , serious difficulty encountered in the Castle Brand Pension Fund which , when the Company closed , was found to be in serious deficit , as part of that fund had been used to pay for earlier redundancies in that Company . |
| 9 | The area had been going to seed for many years after the ship chandlers who once thrived there went one by one out of business . |
| 10 | Captain Mark Phillips had been expected to remain for some time in his cottage on the estate , where he has lived since the marriage broke up three years ago . |
| 11 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |
| 12 | The stormclouds that had been threatening to unload for most of the week finally opened their hatches on Saturday afternoon . |
| 13 | Influenced particularly by Ravi Shankar , whose film music he had been hired to score for Western musicians . |