Example sentences of "[conj] had be [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he awoke he could not tell if he had fainted or had been asleep for hours or even days . |
| 2 | He denied that the paramilitaries had been linked to the drug traffickers or had been responsible for the massacres of campesinos attributed to them . |
| 3 | They reflected a concept that had been current for a number of years , that experiments in planning free zones ought to be devised ( Banham et al . , |
| 4 | It was an argument that had been simmering for two days , and it was clear he was beginning to waver . |
| 5 | The coolers had been a stumbling block , an item that had been impossible for the restoration crew to find . |
| 6 | Generally , the products were made of plane/sycamore wood that had been seasoned for about 6 months . |
| 7 | But there was humour in her tone , and a sparkle in her lovely eyes , and the mouth that had been unhappy for so long now curved in a smile . |
| 8 | His great oak coffin that had been ready for him for years was set up like a cupboard at the head of the bier , fresh lined with red and gold damask , its silver handles polished bright . |
| 9 | He built his shed which , made as it was of old floorboards from a couple of hovels that had been empty for years , resembled a shack . |
| 10 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |
| 11 | She was an Irish Catholic woman of twenty-eight and had been married for nearly two years . |
| 12 | When several of us got down there the CO informed us that we had to fly down the Gulf to look for an Imperial Airways airliner , one of those Armstrong Whitworth Argosys which was named City of Glasgow , and had been overdue for sometime . |
| 13 | The one I found was run down , anyway , and had been empty for years . ’ |
| 14 | Both the US Navy and Army had run their own intelligence departments since the early 1880s while the FBI had been in existence since 1910 and had been responsible for collating foreign intelligence . |
| 15 | The issue of the Securitate , which had maintained Ceausescu in power and had been responsible for the bloodshed in the week following the revolution , was another factor which fuelled mistrust . |
| 16 | Chaabane had in June 1991 been appointed " first adviser to the President on human rights " [ see p. 38363 ] and had been responsible for explaining abroad the government 's policy towards the Islamic movement and on electoral reform . |