Example sentences of "had been a [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been a widow for 25 years and now lived in one room , earning a living as a charwoman . |
| 2 | He was almost 60 years of age and had been a fugitive for 22 years , during which time he had had no permanent home , no source of income and little respite from danger . |
| 3 | ‘ He had been a prosecutor for eight years . ’ |
| 4 | David Moore had been a pilot for 25 years , flying with the Fleet Air Arm before joining Rolls Royce . |
| 5 | Such a multiple attack had been a possibility for some time . |
| 6 | He said the buy-out had been a possibility for some time , but the two sides had only got down to serious discussions in the past few months . |
| 7 | She wrote that a woman who had been a comp for eleven years had told her that the subject of a union had never been mentioned to her before . |
| 8 | Whatever the exact circumstances , it is at least clear that Eliot vacated Carlyle Mansions quickly and deliberately — and that he left behind him a man to whom he had been a companion for ten years . |
| 9 | Among the outgoing ministers Alvaro Barreto , the Health Minister , had held senior government posts for 11 years and had been a minister for nine of these . |
| 10 | He had been a widower for twenty-six years , and had no children . |
| 11 | He had been a widower for many years , she knew . |
| 12 | ‘ The King had been a widower for ten years , ’ he continued . |
| 13 | By then , he had been a Recorder for ten years and had become a QC in 1974 , continuing in active practice until January 1985 , since when Sir Anthony — he was knighted last year — has acted as both Ombudsman and Health Service Commissioner . |
| 14 | Charles had been a bachelor for thirty-two years . |
| 15 | Aidan McAleenan grabbed a fortunate winner for Billy Hamilton 's side nine minutes from time as Joe McBrearty who had been a spectator for long periods allowed his harmless looking shot slip through his hands . |
| 16 | That was the first time that there had been a programme for sustainable forestry management in Guyana . |
| 17 | Celebrations as the new recruits graduate , some of them will be flying the new non-stop service between London and Hong Kong , which had been a duopoly for British Airways and Cathay Pacific . |
| 18 | Thirty had been a party for fifty , and now had honed it down to a fabulous four . |
| 19 | ’ Not till much later did I learn mother had been a diabetic for many years . |
| 20 | That night there had been a dinner for some of his London friends , they sat up late and there was a kind of wager , they went out into the park , it was a chilly night , and Simon in his evening clothes jumped into the water-piece . |
| 21 | This had been a practice for many years , as the label from Day 's circulating library illustrated overleaf shows . |
| 22 | As the record company had grown , it too had been broken down into smaller units : DinDisc had been a model for two more affiliated labels , 10 and Siren . |
| 23 | Despite the widespread feeling that there had been a victory for parental rights , many of the Dewsbury parents claimed to have been acting for the sake of their children . |
| 24 | He added that Mr O'Reilly had been a pharmacist for 42 years and was ‘ genuinely although misguidedly attempting to help people suffering from this terrible condition ’ . |
| 25 | So he would be vague , and talk of the south , and say he had been a vagrant for many years . |
| 26 | It had been a preoccupation for several years , but now it was becoming intense . |