Example sentences of "and [vb past] been [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A phased return of responsibility from the army to the civilian police was begun in 1976 and had been completed for most of the region by early 1977 . |
| 2 | Both very meticulous players , they had fallen more than one hole behind and had been warned for slow play . |
| 3 | The inquest heard that Leonie had been seen regularly by her GP and had been referred for psychiatric treatment . |
| 4 | Another , a woman who was living , and had been living for many years in , in continuous adultery ! |
| 5 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 6 | The twins had wandered out of the rectory garden and had been missing for twenty minutes . |
| 7 | This had a separate entrance and had been used for many purposes — the storage of deeds by the Wilts and Dorset Bank , prior to this by Mr. Peru , a solicitor , but when I was a small boy it had been leased to The Haunch of Venison Inn as a wine store and bottling plant . |