Example sentences of "had be [verb] for [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those fantasies that had protected her from real life , that beautiful , unpolluted world of the Lock with its seals and its childhood memories of her father and that other glossy , television world that she imagined people like Simon inhabited , had been ruined for her for ever . |
| 2 | Ken told the story as though it had been scripted for him for Hancock 's Half Hour . |
| 3 | Living Dead and Terminator slippers — people had been queuing for them for God 's sake — were being returned unused to the shops and credit notes cashed in for balls of wool and packets of scraperboard . |
| 4 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 5 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 6 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 7 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |