Example sentences of "had been [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been away on a little holiday in Spain and knew nothing . |
| 2 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 3 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 4 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 5 | He had been neither to a great school nor to a university . |
| 6 | The trapped feeling must have been because she had been indoors for a long time . |
| 7 | Further , Curtis had informed Grant that the word on the streets was that the recent outbreak of violence and killing had been all about a territorial dispute between rival Triad and Mafia gangs . |
| 8 | She had been out with a young lawyer once , a bumptious and ambitious man , and a boring one . |
| 9 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 10 | The cheap attempt at humour had been too like a treacherous repudiation of Timmy whom he loved . |
| 11 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |