Example sentences of "and [noun] had [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jasper and Bert had been gone for ten days . |
| 2 | And the demand for jam jars had been so great that even salvage dumps and cemeteries had been searched for extra supplies . |
| 3 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
| 4 | Tom Dreaper could not convince him that racing was a business to be taken seriously , and Foinavon had been sold for 2,000 guineas . |
| 5 | Mr Reynolds had an intravenous infusion and a central venous line ( see p.1 ) and fluids had been prescribed for both . |
| 6 | Dr Gilbert has pointed out that when the evangelist Hannah More remarked in 1789 on the existence of whole village populations no less estranged from the services of the Church than were heathens , she was belatedly recognising something which Wesley and Whitefield had been proclaiming for decades . |
| 7 | Of the shortfall , departments had assessed 80m as being unobtainable , and 65m had been rejected for political and other reasons ( Making Things Happen , 1985 ) . |
| 8 | Donald and Elinor had been talking for thirty minutes . |
| 9 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 10 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 11 | And Orlick had been arrested for breaking into Pumblechook 's house and stealing his money . |
| 12 | The first half was in Malta and the second half in Monsummano-Terme and arrangements had been made for David to fly out there with Ken Pitt and perform ‘ When I Live My Dream ’ , one of the songs on David 's first album . |
| 13 | Earlier , in the last week of March , 28 officers and civilians had been arrested for reportedly planning a coup against the government . |
| 14 | The year Lydia had bought her cottage a young person had died and Lydia had been lost for words , as people are in the face of tragedy . |
| 15 | He said that , despite the fact that representatives of the Russian Parliament did not want them to be built and decisions had been taken for them not to be built , they were still being built because of the nature of the command economy that is being phased out . |
| 16 | Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now . |
| 17 | She and Caan had been separated for three years . |
| 18 | Some 355 classes and courses had been provided for about 7,000 students in 110 WEA branches and thirty Student Groups . |
| 19 | On Sept. 17 it was announced that the defence and economic co-operation accord between the USA and Turkey had been extended for another year . |
| 20 | And Nicholas had been sent for . |
| 21 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |