No | Pattern | Freq | Relations |
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1 | had been [verb] for some [noun] | 66 | |
2 | had [been] [verb] for some [noun sg] | 48 | |
3 | had [been] [verb] for some time | 41 | |
4 | had [been] [verb] for some time | 41 | |
5 | had [been] [v-ing] for some [noun] | 37 | |
6 | had [been] [vb pp] for some [noun] | 29 | |
7 | had [been] [verb] for some [noun pl] | 18 | |
8 | had [been] [verb] for some years | 11 | |
9 | had [been] [verb] for some year | 11 |