Example sentences of "had [be] [verb] [pron] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 2 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 3 | Worse , Riley had been chiding him for not providing a string of exclusive MacQuillan stories but the ones he had written were being held over until they were out of date or appeared elsewhere . |
| 4 | The expression that had been haunting her for nearly two days . |
| 5 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 6 | Margaret had been seeing him for nearly a year and Maura had the feeling that they were going to get married . |
| 7 | Since the approach was fairly new to all interviewed ( none had been operating it for more than nine months ) the responses may have more to do with expectations than experience , but nevertheless they serve to sketch out the potential of the care programme approach to affect every aspect of mental health care , for good or ill . |
| 8 | I had been preparing myself for as long as I can remember , preparing myself ( though I did not always realize it ) from the day that I was born , preparing myself , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , but always aware of the dangers of beginning too soon . |