Example sentences of "he had been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After his visits to London his wife was waiting to welcome him as if he had been away for weeks , and she was always dutiful in bed . |
| 2 | Nevertheless they smiled and waved at him as he came in and Deuce , at the tape recorder , came over , arms open , as if he had been away for weeks . |
| 3 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 4 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 5 | He had been there for an hour and a half . |
| 6 | He told me he had been there for a long time dying . |
| 7 | He had been there for almost two weeks now , visiting Uncle Lionel . |
| 8 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 9 | ‘ He had been there for two nights , sinking deeper and deeper , ’ but the troops , obsessed by their own suffering , passed by without so much as casting a glance at the wretched beast . |