Example sentences of "it had [been] [adv] for " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ It had been there for years — I played there myself as a child — but it was situated in the worst possible place . |
2 | It 's rather like er I had a plant the other day , a marigold , and it had been there for about two weeks and it was a lovely plant , and er I noticed it beginning to droop and I thought , oh well it 's finished now , it 's in a pot . |
3 | It had been there for about a fortnight , and was in the right age range . |
4 | Keith Sutton , prosecuting on behalf of Sefton Council 's Public Protection Department , told the court there was sufficient oil in the insect to suggest it had been there for some time . |
5 | It had been enough for her that he was a man who thought his house a good point of departure for the Piero della Francesca trail . |