Example sentences of "had [been] [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A barricade of flagstones prised up from the floor had been erected for a final stand and the Collector , snatching a moment to look back towards it , was dismayed to see that the other party was already behind it , thus leaving himself and his men exposed on the flank . |
| 2 | In addition aid money from the food programme , which by 1989 was worth $1,300 million per year to Iraq in loan guarantees , was channelled through the Atlanta branch of the Italian-owned Banca Nazionale del Lavoro , officials of which had been indicted for a separate multi-million dollar fraud involving arms for Iraq in 1989 [ see pp. 37425-26 ] . |
| 3 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 4 | The red silk dress had been exchanged for a slender column of midnight-blue sequins that caught the light and spun it back in dizzying rainbows of colour . |
| 5 | The trouble began when 10,000 Moslems marched in the town centre , protesting that permission had been granted for a five-day Christian revivalist rally to be addressed by a German preacher , Reinhard Bonnke , whereas some weeks previously permission had been refused for a South African imam to visit Kano . |
| 6 | Obviously a tall , long-legged person will need a big horse ; I recently sold a 17.3hh gelding to a man of six foot eight who had been looking for a long time ! |
| 7 | I had been looking for a full-length piece to do anyway and I was also attracted to the idea of working with a ballet company . ’ |
| 8 | If Philip had been looking for a pale , sickly , ragged and possibly fettered prisoner , Harry would be a considerable shock to him . |
| 9 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
| 10 | I had been asked for a full text of the sermon , to be printed in the society minutes and had gone to some trouble to prepare for the occasion . |
| 11 | Sophie 's voice dipped in disappointment , as if she had been hoping for a graphic account of overturned furniture and blood on the walls . |
| 12 | I know Martinho had been hoping for a religious programme . |
| 13 | Fifty miles south-west of the railway line bomb , 13 Platoon of 6 UDR reported in for duty at 0600 ; they had been hoping for a quiet day , in order to catch up on some training . |
| 14 | The embattled Chancellor had been hoping for a public show of loyalty from the Prime Minister . |
| 15 | He had been gone for a long time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As the door closed , Zen let out a breath he realized he had been holding for a long time . |
| 18 | ‘ He was not in the premier division of drugs dealers in Belfast and police have no reason to contradict his assertion that he had been involved for a short time , ’ the Crown lawyer added . |
| 19 | Howard had , after a quick tour of the TARDIS , retired to his office with a brandy bottle he had been saving for a special occasion . |
| 20 | There they had been questioned for a long time , in a way which — Alice could see , watching Bert 's face as he told the tale — had not only impressed but sobered the two . |
| 21 | Upton won their first game since the opening day of the season when they routed Winnington Park for 64 the season 's lowest score with groundsman Alex Kegg taking 4–18 after Upton had been dismissed for a modest 128 . |
| 22 | Sir John Donaldson defended himself in a public speech saying that the court had not known that the assets had been earmarked for a political or any other purpose . |
| 23 | The cash had been earmarked for a big expansion of the jobs training and retraining programme . |
| 24 | Demirel had previously pledged to remove President Özal from power , but on Oct. 24 , possibly influenced by the narrowness of his party 's victory over the ANAP , he declared that Özal might continue as President — an office to which he had been elected for a seven-year term in October 1989 . |
| 25 | Johnson was used to red cards , but this particular coupon was to signal a different kind of brush with authority , a sign that the player had been selected for a random dope test . |
| 26 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 27 | Chatterton , Fagg , Fishbane and Glastonbury were huddled together in the Smoking Room , from which each of them had been extracted for a brief conversation with Milton . |
| 28 | She had been intended for a respectable life . |
| 29 | It had been known for a long time that histamine was responsible for producing many allergies and the first antihistamine drug was produced in France in 1937 . |
| 30 | As I 've mentioned already in the context of metaphors of memory , the phenomenon of ‘ animal electricity ’ and its relation to neural activity had been known for a long time — at least since Galvani 's demonstration in Bologna in the 1790s that electrical pulses caused a frog 's legs to twitch . |