Example sentences of "had been [verb] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most dramatic breakthrough came in 1970 as Courtaulds , the textile giant , was upgrading its machinery and selling off cheaply equipment which had been built to last for years . |
| 2 | In 1660 the Company of Royal Adventurers had been formed to look for gold , but it very soon realized that the switch to using slaves in the West Indies to grow sugar had transformed the trading situation , and that the Dutch had done very well out of the new developments in the British West Indies . |
| 3 | The peace plan , which would allow for republics to declare independence , had been amended to allow for republics to form a common state , the economy of which could be organized on non-market lines ; the article granting autonomy to the ( currently Serbian-controlled ) provinces of Kosovo and Vojvodina was deleted . |
| 4 | The latter I had been intending to read for years and , by happenstance , had come across a cheap edition in a book sale just days before setting out . |
| 5 | They looked at each other , Jean-Paul focusing his eyes with difficulty , and Edouard saw the coarsening in his brother which he had been trying to ignore for days . |
| 6 | Robert recognized faces he had been trying to avoid for weeks . |
| 7 | One of the pink slips was a Returning-Your-Call message from a recently-elected female politician she had been trying to contact for days . |
| 8 | But BitC was an outfit with drive , enthusiasm , and a determination to make the sort of changes in society that Charles had been trying to make for years . |
| 9 | He hailed almost certainly from the region of the lower Loire , where a close kinsman ( perhaps his father ) had been killed fighting for Louis the Pious in 834 and already before 842 another probable close kinsman , Rainald , was count of Herbauge and dux of Nantes . |
| 10 | The Guardian of April 18 reported that nearly 2,000 state-controlled companies had been forced to file for bankruptcy after an April 16 deadline for the repayment of their debts . |
| 11 | Part of that money had been allocated to pay for pensions and vehicle leases , but now the force will have to find the money elsewhere or face cutting jobs . |
| 12 | By one of those somersaults that can make Parliament so perplexing , whereas Ministers in the Commons had been forbidden to vote for abolition , in the Lords they were instructed to support the suspension of the death penalty for five years . |
| 13 | Of the furniture , one of the rare disappointments ( if you can call it that ) was the $825,000 ( £458,300 ) sale of an important Louis XIV ormolu-mounted Boulle marquetry bureau plat , around 1710 , attributed to André-Charles Boulle , that had been estimated to sell for $1–1.5 million . |
| 14 | Worse was to follow , for they were taken by bus to Takali where 261 Squadron had been ordered to prepare for departure to the Middle East , 249 being the unit 's relief- and they were ordered to take 249 's new Hurricanes with them , leaving most of their own well-worn machines behind . |