Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] had [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | He really did n't think the Revolution was anything more than a few peasants kicking up a fuss , like they had been doing for hundreds of years . |
| 32 | Should the elective resolution cease to have effect , if the authority has lasted for 5 years or more before the election it expires forthwith : otherwise it has effect as if it had been given for a fixed period of 5 years . |
| 33 | Though the stone was large , the ornate gold band was small , and it fitted as if it had been made for her . |
| 34 | It had all trees on it and looked as if it had been made for picnics . |
| 35 | He took to the Cobra position as if it had been designed for him . |
| 36 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
| 37 | If he had been working for three days and three nights then it was in the suit he was wearing now , and his shoes had mud on them , and Erlich did n't think Ruane would be impressed . |
| 38 | If he had been briefed for a mission in which he did not participate , he would then have been kept incommunicado until he did finally leave . |
| 39 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 40 | Now when you say right across , I mean you you 've ta seen the photos of , of er shell pitted ground with the nineteen fourteen eighteen war , well that 's how Bentley was then cos it had been rooted for coal and nineteen twenty six strike everybody got it all out cos there was a lot of top surface coal , course it was just left there was a lot of mole holes , stuff from the furnaces when they tip tipped the slag , it was up and down and there was Buttons Brook , was n't it Buttons Brook across there , called Buttons Brook there was a pool across there called Leg of Lamb but I mean it , it er you can imagine what I 'm trying to say , what the ground was like to go over in pitch black night , to go over there and we went out and course we was issued with er ammunition which was one of the o only times I can remember when we went really out prepared with live ammunition , and er we scouted and scouted till daybreak and we did n't find nothing . |
| 41 | She was sore and uncomfortable , perhaps because she had been standing for so long and walking so much . |
| 42 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | The justice ministry said yesterday , however , that because they had been held for more than two years without trial , they were released . |
| 45 | And who was it who said that when he agreed to play the Devil in the Witches of Eastwick , it was because he had been practising for the role all his life ? |
| 46 | At lunch , Dick Hansen decided that the pieces he could see ( because it had been disassembled for shipping ) from the pictures merited a closer look and so Dick called the owner to verify the price . |
| 47 | Our use of some light music on the Fort San Programme was excused because it had been requested for those patients recovering in hospital . |
| 48 | Jessamy had been thinking about it while she had been waiting for Julius to return with the blankets , and she thought she knew the answer . |
| 49 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |
| 50 | Now , after I had been walking for only seventeen days , I had almost forgotten those words . |
| 51 | ‘ After I had been criticised for employing ‘ Lady Merchiston ’ and ‘ your ladyship ’ , I finally found that compromise which she accepted . |
| 52 | In a taped interview with Jill Jones , Head of Science in a comprehensive , which I shall quote from several times , I asked her , after she had been talking for a while about the frustrations , what made it all worthwhile . |
| 53 | The conditional bail had been granted after she had been arrested for shouting ‘ scab ’ at working miners . |
| 54 | After she had been arrested for playing the two-backed beast with Culpepper — and me , though I was n't caught , but there again that 's another tale — the king 's guards came to take her whilst she was staying at Hampton Court . |
| 55 | So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal . |
| 56 | TUBE passenger Jonathan Zito was stabbed to death in front of his brother just after they had been reunited for Christmas . |
| 57 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |
| 58 | After they had been stranded for about an hour , they heard splashing and noticed a smell of dead fish , then a hissing noise . |
| 59 | Plenty of that , no doubt , in this overgrown , untended woodland , even after it had been combed for firing by the urchins of the Foregate . |
| 60 | ‘ Nutrition , ’ John said , after he had been working for a short time . |