Example sentences of "had been [verb] [prep] it for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had been living in it for years . |
| 2 | It was not too deep or strong for horses but a tree had been felled across it for foot-passengers . |
| 3 | No regular services had been held in it for many years , although it had been used for funerals and the occasional service , remaining open for visitors and pilgrims to Cell-y-bedd and the shrine . |
| 4 | He had been working on it for more than ten years . |
| 5 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 6 | 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 . |