Example sentences of "it had [adv] been [verb] for " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	The third was heading for Isengard , to alarm Pippin on its way with the thought that it had somehow been despatched for him ( 11 , 204 ) .
2	It had traditionally been used for stores and dressing .
3	Jake fingered the paperweight idly as he continued , ‘ It had probably been developing for a few days .
4	Unfortunately it had just been earmarked for housing .
5	So far as is known it had never been loaned for exhibition , it had never passed through an auction room and those few who had been fortunate enough to see it had done so at the private house in Oxford where it had been in the possession of the same family for many years .
6	It had never been known for them to stay less than three hours — not that Mum minded .
7	The Liverpool Street dungeon was known , incongruously , as the gymnasium , presumably in memory of its intended purpose , though it had long been used for general storage .
8	The ruling FLN held an extraordinary congress-the third in the party 's history-on Nov. 28-30 , 1989 ( it had originally been scheduled for the end of October ) .
9	His symbols were circles with different patterns inside them ; presumably circles because it had always been taken for granted that atoms were spheres .
10	It had initially been planned for next week .
11	It had initially been planned for next week .
12	The remaining vote was declared invalid due to a technicality , although it had apparently been cast for Jones .
13	It had apparently been arranged for the drugs to be delivered to a warehouse in Bristol .
14	But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed .
15	It had earlier been planned for next week .
16	In the big front room the flags were as good as new — no wear at all — and Hannah told me it had only been used for funerals and pig-killings .

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