Example sentences of "he [vb past] [be] [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had , in fact , treated her as a man might well treat a wife to whom he 'd been married for some years — a relaxed , comfortable relationship in which there was no need for any outward signs of affection . |
| 2 | He 'd been dead for several hours . |
| 3 | While Self knew that the pressures were great , and respected the engineers ' need to retain control of technical aspects of contracts and tender assessments , he also knew that the engineers were deliberately fending him off and impeding the agreement on procedures which he felt was essential for Central Authority financial control . |
| 4 | In London , just before the war , almost no one had heard of Paul Klee , although in Germany he had been famous for some years . |
| 5 | He had been unwell for some time and had now gone into a state of collapse . |
| 6 | He had been asleep for some time , physically exhausted after his ordeal , but now he tossed and turned , held fast in the grip of some awful nightmare . |
| 7 | He had been asleep for less than half an hour . |
| 8 | When he returned to the Gold Coast he had been absent for 12 years : he had departed far too young to have made any mark . |
| 9 | Even her father 's death a month ago had n't really affected her , because he had been ill for such a long time that nobody could be sorry that the end had come . |
| 10 | He had been ill for many months and his five-year term would not have been renewed at the National People 's Congress which starts on Monday . |
| 11 | He had been ill for some time . |
| 12 | He had been ill for some time , and passed away peacefully on 12 April . |
| 13 | And if in this new life he was to be alone … well , he had been alone for most of his life . |
| 14 | One reason for this was , of course , that since he had been dead for three months his eyes were in any case not in the best of condition . |