Example sentences of "had been [verb] and [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This scheme , which was the first which opened up the riverside in Leeds , an area which up to this time had been ignored and declining for 100 years , led the way for the mass of development which has since followed . |
| 2 | Put another way , she had been plucked and prepared for meetings like this as carefully as a goose is dressed for the oven . |
| 3 | … once the CNAA even began to lend its support to this development , there literally was a kind of explosion , and plainly institutions had been looking and waiting for validation in this field … |
| 4 | It was what she had been hoping and longing for but there was no surge of delight , only a strong but strangely detached sense of relief that the worst of his ordeal was over . |
| 5 | She had tried to locate him for over two years , in both America and Canada , where John had been living and working for a number of years . |
| 6 | Although the quietness of his end was made memorable by Reith 's BBC announcement that ‘ the King 's life is moving peacefully towards its close ’ , there had been no long-term illness during which an early change of reign had been accepted and prepared for . |
| 7 | Behind him in the bathroom stood a chipped old tub slowly filling with water that was the colour of weak tea ; the bathroom walls had been replastered and roughened for tiling , but they did n't have any tiles . |
| 8 | Former Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi had been detained and interrogated for three days . |
| 9 | The room had been vandalized — viciously so ; but it was equally apparent that it had been furnished and cared for at a level totally different from the other rooms . |
| 10 | Storms had wrecked the Spanish fleet on the shores of West Ireland , and the refugees had been welcomed and cared for by the Irish people . |
| 11 | There was a similar reaction after several bodies went missing from Britain 's biggest cemetery in Surrey in April 1988 , even after a man had been arrested and charged for decapitating a disinterred corpse . |
| 12 | Ironically , it was at this time that Ezra Pound , who had been arrested and imprisoned for treason , was examined by four prominent psychologists and judged to be insane . |
| 13 | A man had shot a woman , buried her body in the sands , had been caught and hung for his crime . |
| 14 | Alfred 's shop looked as though it had been closed and deserted for months ; it was hard to believe that it was only three days since a few people , at least , had been entering through the rickety door with its small glass panes to buy patent medicines or seek advice . |
| 15 | Traces of what had been dreamed and hoped for remained ; fragments of poems to Union , written by men whose names had been systematically removed from all record . |
| 16 | Some time previously and after a wait of five years my name had been proposed and seconded for membership , but when my proposer heard that two members were of a mind to blackball me in the ballot , he ( without telling me ) withdrew my candidature . |
| 17 | Beckford was as impatient as Vathek to complete his building , but did not have a magical assistant ; the tower twice collapsed , for the last time in 1825 , and Beckford 's contractor confessed upon his death-bed that he had not provided it with foundations , although they had been specified and paid for . |
| 18 | As Julia began to work the room , she realised that the house had been designed and built for just this sort of occasion : it was planned for servants to run . |
| 19 | Great as his victory had been , London was not quite ready for a twenty-foot high anatomically accurate Achilles , especially as the statue had been commissioned and paid for by the grateful women of England . |
| 20 | Anne realised that the younger , prettier members of both sexes had been bought and paid for . |
| 21 | ‘ Now do stop fussing around , ’ his wife said to him after he had been tossing and turning for about an hour . |