Example sentences of "he had [been] [adj] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | In London , just before the war , almost no one had heard of Paul Klee , although in Germany he had been famous for some years . |
| 2 | He had been unwell for some time and had now gone into a state of collapse . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had been ill for some time . |
| 5 | He had been ill for some time , and passed away peacefully on 12 April . |