Example sentences of "[noun] had been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Millie had been home for nearly three months when she received a letter from Annabel . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Eve had been there for as long as she remembered to help her fight her battles . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Second , it was based in and expressed a paradox : that the educational reform had been primarily for men ; women were still relatively excluded . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 12 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 15 | He noticed that when local church leaders had been away for Bible School training , they ceased to tell stories in their preaching . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 18 | She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night . |
| 19 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot . |
| 22 | Gabrielle was granted a decree nisi in a five-minute hearing at the Divorce Court in London , on the grounds that the couple had been apart for more than two years . |
| 23 | If the groom had been there for over two years , he must have had plenty of opportunity for revenge on Tamar , if that had been his motive . |
| 24 | The Orynthia had been away for eight months ; and only one member of the returning crew , we may not be surprised to hear , decided to risk a voyage in her again — George Groves , the boy apprentice . |
| 25 | But the man whom he promised to come back and visit had been there for twenty years , the oldest inhabitant , as the turnkey would tell newcomers ; he could play the piano and speak fluent French and Italian . |
| 26 | He and my mother had been together for at least ten years when I was born , and we think now that I was her hostage to fortune , the factor that might persuade him to get a divorce and marry her . |
| 27 | A Whalby and his son had been there for as long as anyone could remember and Dadda used sometimes to boast on his good days that Alfred Osborn Tace had himself been a customer and that Whalbys had re-covered the seats of the Hepplewhite chairs at Chesney Hall . |