Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | It was a fortress town and a trading centre , as it had been for the Romans 800 years earlier . |
| 32 | In all the most important affairs of life , liberty remained for him what it had been for the last thirty years , a state of will which could not depart from rectitude . |
| 33 | It was how it had been for the past two weeks and the young woman tried to ignore her protesting muscles and her aching back as she stared into the hearth and watched the tiny flames flickering in and out of the carefully banked-up grate . |