Example sentences of "[noun sg] had been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 2 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 3 | And it is left obvious that the card had been printed for her aides to make notes for her forthcoming speeches . |
| 4 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 5 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 6 | The car had been waiting for him . |
| 7 | It was obvious to Michael and Geoffrey that the car had been waiting for them . |
| 8 | I was surprised , therefore , to discover that quite a busy programme had been arranged for me . |
| 9 | His best guess was that the reference was to Nerys , that his unconscious mind had been looking for comfort in the prospect that Wayne would at least be with his mother , in which case he decided that there was probably some hope for his mental state after all . |
| 10 | His mind had been prepared for an impossible radiance and it had taken time to absorb a new set of signals . |
| 11 | It was unlikely that murder had been committed for a few pounds , but one could never be sure . |
| 12 | Yet at the time the report was released , the actual company that was used as the basis for the research had been trading for five months and is coping well with a difficult launch period and providing to be highly successful in meeting its targets . |
| 13 | Why of course : the Essoldo had been built for these middle class folk in the 1930s — they were Patrons ! |
| 14 | The squinch had been known for some time and was used in Persia , Turkestan , Armenia and Asia Minor . |
| 15 | She calmly told me that the police had called round and that Nassim had been looking for me . |
| 16 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 17 | This was the tonic which the nuclear industry had been waiting for — a government which was both strongly sympathetic to its point of view , and prepared to make firm decisions . |
| 18 | After two months , a settlement of 17 per cent was agreed , but the green light had been given for others to follow on . |
| 19 | A careful search had been made for two orphaned children whom the Sheikha could foster and love as her own . |
| 20 | If , on the other hand , ‘ domicile ’ had the meaning which that term had been given for the purposes of the application of the Brussels Convention , it must be assimilated to residence . |
| 21 | His current term had been extended for a year until mid-1993 [ see p. 38601 ] . |
| 22 | Dr Horn 's assessment is that by the 1790s the southern farm labourer 's standard of living had been falling for thirty years , and that an increase of around 85 per cent in money wages over the war years kept it just about level up to 1815 . |
| 23 | It was doubtful if the equipment had been used for years . |
| 24 | Tony Scowcroft , press officer for the Plymouth Argyle Supporters Association London Branch , said the pub had been chosen for its good beer , good food and atmosphere . |
| 25 | The Social Security Advisory Committee had been asked for its solution to the argument about when men and women should retire . |
| 26 | A meeting of the Public Sector Pay Committee had been called for 8.45 a.m. — a sure sign that it had been called by Geoffrey Howe who was consistently the earliest ministerial starter . |
| 27 | Well they were , the ward committee had been seeking for a , a candidate , but I had no opposition at that time at all . |
| 28 | Such theories must have attracted the Eliot who so often had connected modern and savage life and whose own poetry had been attacked for its apparently illogical movements from one image to the next . |
| 29 | The Führer 's claim that his work had been sabotaged for years , and that the German war machine could run at full stretch now that the last plot had been foiled , was seen to demonstrate that the people had long been lied to in earlier statements that time was on Germany 's side and war production increasing . |
| 30 | Due to the fact that his marriage had been heading for the rocks ? |