Example sentences of "had [been] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mitra attacked a secret visit by Ramos to Switzerland in mid-February , hinting that Ramos had been seeking foreign funds for his campaign . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , the corporate-finance deals that had been generating big bucks for Wall Street 's investment bankers were starting to dry up . |
| 3 | The court thus upheld a claim by three men who had been given discretionary sentences for various sex offences . |
| 4 | A client who hated her job told me she had been considering other options for two years , without taking any positive action . |
| 5 | Lili had said inconsequentially that Syl had been chasing young girls for years , and my mother had asked her crossly how she knew . |
| 6 | In part , this is because the country 's main coal-fired power plants had been awarded free permits for 75 per cent of their " baseline " output ( calculated on the basis of their average emissions in the 1980s ) . |
| 7 | Some of the organisations which had been utilising temporary workers for a number of years had people in their temporary workforce who had been employed by them several times , sometimes for several months at a time , who had not worked elsewhere in the interim . |
| 8 | The chief inspector added that he and colleagues at the Halesowen driving school had been pressing senior officers for months to re-introduce the two-week intensive training course dropped in 1989 . |
| 9 | Apparently he had been devising procedural systems for years , but nobody used them and everybody laughed at him . |