Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] for [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been ordered to report to the Ministry by his Adjutant , and either there had been some colossal mistake or he 'd been sent for under false pretences . |
| 2 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 3 | I wondered where Toby was — he 'd been gone for over thirty-six hours now . |
| 4 | I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on . |
| 5 | She was well aware that it would seem thoroughly feeble — if not downright pathetic — to refuse to accompany him to New York simply because they had been separated for almost five years . |
| 6 | Most of the sample group ( 82 per cent ) had been using for over two years before they first sought treatment . |
| 7 | Sheila , who had been ringing for over 20 years , told me that her father and grandfather had both been ringers . |
| 8 | Buckby , who is also secretary of the Langbaurgh Schools Cross Country Association , said he had been trying for nearly ten years to have the rule changed . |
| 9 | Douglas Gray of Middleton in Teesdale said he had been complaining for over two years about undelivered letters and hit out at the ‘ uncaring attitude ’ of the Post Office in Darlington . |
| 10 | He added that the inquiry had been hampered for about 24 hours by the violence on Tuesday night . |
| 11 | Reintroduction of the Law on entry to and exit from the USSR had been delayed for almost 18 months in committee since its first reading . |
| 12 | The St Petersburg company had been criticized for increasingly right-wing broadcasting . |
| 13 | With these additions the unitary principle , supposedly at the heart of the Redcliffe-Maud recommendations , had been rejected for nearly 20 million people out of England 's population of approximately 45 million . |
| 14 | The Darkfall storm had been building for quite some time , generating itself , growing stronger . |
| 15 | He had been employed for only three weeks . |
| 16 | He asked members to support the motion so that the Attorney General as a member of the Government and as leader of this profession could convey to the Government our sense of disgust at the way we had been treated for so long ( sustained applause ) . |
| 17 | In February the King released 313 political prisoners , including prisoners of conscience Jogen Gazmere and Sushil Pokhrel , who had been detained for over two years without trial . |
| 18 | ‘ The Joint Parole Board/Home Office Committee was established in 1973 to give initial consideration , usually after a life sentence prisoner had been detained for about three years in custody , to the date for the first formal consideration of the case by the Parole Board machinery . |
| 19 | It had been prepared for quite some time and the brunt of it was against the Serbs , ’ said Col Jovanovic . |
| 20 | Nora had been prepared for almost any response from John , except the one she got — or thought she had got . |
| 21 | I remembered the dated way he had of addressing people — though he had been sacked for more serious matters . |
| 22 | It had been raining for over three hours , and the hide Duncan lay in was filled with water . |
| 23 | The microlight had been flying for nearly half an hour when it crashed into a field . |
| 24 | At one time so many people from the area were hanged at Newgate it had been nicknamed Jack Ketch 's Warren , and according to Paddy it had been known for as many as forty constables to march down with cutlasses to control disturbances . |
| 25 | It was also stated that a ‘ scam ’ had been running for quite some time prior to the defendants ' involvement . |
| 26 | The English had been fishing there for over a century , and had been settled for over fifty years , so they had a strong position for making the French give up any claims to settle there . |
| 27 | About half of the patients had been waiting for their notes for less than six weeks , but 19 had been waiting for over six months , 14 for over a year , and six for over two years . |
| 28 | Now , after I had been walking for only seventeen days , I had almost forgotten those words . |
| 29 | He had been walking for almost four hours . |
| 30 | Carol Clark had been missing for almost 40 hours before her body was found at Sharpness . |