Example sentences of "[noun] had [be] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 2 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 3 | Millie had been home for nearly three months when she received a letter from Annabel . |
| 4 | Sixty-two per cent of those in old people 's homes had been there for a year or more compared with 47 per cent of those in nursing homes , but this difference might have occurred by chance . |
| 5 | Eve had been there for as long as she remembered to help her fight her battles . |
| 6 | But if she came and found Tina up she could pretend to herself that Tina had been up for hours , and was a normal person and a proper mother . |
| 7 | The plan had been originally for Rohan to marry Antoinette , but because she was the Baronne 's niece , not Gaston 's , the inheritance would have been penalised financially by the government . |
| 8 | The party of young Australians had been out for a meal , and had stopped to take photographs , when Roermond 's market square echoed to gunfire . |
| 9 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 10 | Second , it was based in and expressed a paradox : that the educational reform had been primarily for men ; women were still relatively excluded . |
| 11 | The little that she 'd been able to piece together was that Pamela was a barrister , that the house did , as Lucy had suspected , belong to her , and that she and Josie had been together for at least five years and probably longer . |
| 12 | Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month . |
| 13 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 14 | Harry had been all for building a full-blown ship of three hundred tons or more , with four masts , three decks , two castles and ten brass pieces into the bargain , but Sam Gristy had insisted upon a more modest outlay , and a three-masted bark had been agreed upon . |
| 15 | Secondly , a while ago I mentioned that a guy called Alan Byrne had been over for a trial , in Elland Road , from Shamrock Rovers in Dublin . |
| 16 | In any case , the phobia had been around for so long that one extra week would not really make any difference . |
| 17 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |
| 18 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 19 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 20 | But she did say on one occasion , after Cassie had been home for about two days : ‘ How 's that nice young man we met , Cassie ? |
| 21 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 22 | She and Lewis had been out for a meal the night before . |
| 23 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 24 | He noticed that when local church leaders had been away for Bible School training , they ceased to tell stories in their preaching . |
| 25 | Tommy and Iain had been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 26 | Like Doreen had always been putting the food on the table , like the old dog Oswald had been there for as long as they could recall . |
| 27 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 28 | She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night . |
| 29 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 30 | She said her husband had made regular visits to the field , but a vet believed some of the dead sheep had been there for at least two weeks . |