Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] be [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I tried being polite for a long time , Aunt Ruth , and it got me nowhere . |
| 2 | I 'd been house-sitting for Nassim Nassim 's cousin Sunil in Leytonstone for a week now , which meant that the five-day house-warming party where all my so-called friends drop in to see how I 'm coping , how much booze I 've laid on and what the music centre 's like , had come to an end . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd been miserable for a long time . |
| 4 | But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something . |
| 5 | The Squirrel I flew was appropriate for the task , being owned privately by a pilot who bought it new and had flown just 60 hours before it was introduced to me . |
| 6 | I did what I thought was right for the most precious thing in the world to me . |
| 7 | I had been married for seven hours . |
| 8 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 9 | I had been poorly for a while and could n't eat and the doctor thought it may be appendicitis so he sent me to Darlington Hospital . |
| 10 | As I enjoyed the stew I looked at my watch , it was just after mid-day ; I had been asleep for nearly four hours . |
| 11 | I came to believe that I had been responsible for those terrible things , that I was to blame , that I must be very bad . |
| 12 | But I was braced to cope with him because I had been ambitious for Jean-Claude , vauntingly so . |
| 13 | She felt as though she 'd been asleep for about five minutes ! |
| 14 | As the shop manager pointed out , it was the third time that month she 'd been late for work , and if they had n't needed her to turn up on time , they would n't have hired her in the first place . |
| 15 | He went on a while about the various tests but where he came out was that she 'd been dead for at least five days , and seven was perfectly possible . |
| 16 | Even though she 'd been dead for so long it could sometimes seem that she was still with him , a presence in the next room , someone on the other side of a door who waited and listened but who never stepped through , except when he dreamed . |
| 17 | It was impossible to know whether he still believed she 'd been responsible for that . |
| 18 | There was a sort of thirstiness about Julia 's immersion in the conversation , as though she 'd been parched for a long time . |
| 19 | ‘ She 'd been ill for a long time . |
| 20 | The French plait she wore was fine for everyday , but she had n't given a thought to the more social occasions . |
| 21 | The colours she chose were black for the main colour and a dark multi-coloured yarn for the second colour . |
| 22 | To kill someone , all she did was fast for three days and concentrate her mind on destroying the life of her enemy . |
| 23 | She had been listless for some time and the woman could only hope that moving her right away from the influence of the people she went around with into these beautiful surroundings might bring her back to herself . |
| 24 | She had been homesick for this city , and the years of marriage to Nahum slipped away . |
| 25 | He had found a niche at once with the men , but she told Julia that she had been unhappy for months , struggling with the other women to force local villagers to disgorge food , humping it back up to the camp and preparing it under extraordinarily difficult conditions . |
| 26 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 27 | She had been married for 19 years and had four children ( aged between 12 and 17 years ) . |
| 28 | She had been married for the last two years , to a man who really was a sewage plant manager ( Slater was quite hurt that Graham thought he 'd invented this detail for the sake of a joke ) . |
| 29 | ‘ When she was writing Rebecca she had been married for about four years , had one child and during the writing of the book , had her second child . |
| 30 | Had he not been she might have telephoned him instead of Nick , when she had been desperate for company . |