Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [adj] for some " in BNC.
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| 31 | I know your mother had been ill for some time , but I know that this will not have lessened the loss you and your family must now feel . |
| 32 | He had been ill for some time . |
| 33 | Roach , who was a producer , director and screenwriter , had been ill for some time and was under the care of doctors of the Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital , a hospital spokeswoman said . |
| 34 | He had been ill for some time , and passed away peacefully on 12 April . |
| 35 | Examining her responses to this normal catalogue of everyday events , of life , she found that she wished she was dead , had been dead for some time , so that she was used to it : and then she thought that if she had been dead for long enough , she would probably be bored with that by now . |
| 36 | The weather had been fine for some days and the mood was right . |
| 37 | MGM had been responsible for some of the worst quota quickie outrages , and its new willingness to finance British-based production was the result of legislative changes which brought American companies deeper into British film production . |