Example sentences of "[adj] [pron] had [been] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had seen how entirely wrong it had been for him to have assumed that Beatrice Throgmorton would look twice at him . |
| 2 | Hours passed and the wind worsened to the strongest it had been for days . |
| 3 | I 'm sure it was , Patrick grinned as he walked down the corridor and climbed the half-dozen steps from the servants ' quarters up to the hall ; he had seen the look on the butler 's face , and knew how uncomfortable it had been for him . |
| 4 | He was a huge man in his early thirties who had been for a time a heavyweight boxer . |
| 5 | The nearest one had been for the use of the Conway 's house , the second one was for the use of Tommy Grant and his family . |
| 6 | This year , the abundance of berries was the best it had been for years . |