Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [noun pl] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |
| 2 | There had been calls for the removal , even the court-martialling , of the general concerned , but the army had defended the latter and he had been allowed to complete the campaign . |
| 3 | There had been offers for the shop which his father had consistently turned down . |
| 4 | As the mourners left the Church , there had been plans for a Spitfire to fly over in a final tribute . |
| 5 | We had been lovers for a year or so . |
| 6 | In recent years there have been records for every month as single birds have summered five or six times . |
| 7 | In the Planning Basis for Kent , published in 1948 , we read under Bridges , Halling : " From time to time there have been requests for a bridge at Halling to replace a very inadequate privately owned ferry service . |
| 8 | Over here , there have been calls for the Guardian Angels to set up a chapter of Pink Angels . |
| 9 | There have been calls for the Bank to issue more debt at the short end , to take advantage of lower short rates . |
| 10 | There have been calls for an inquiry into the problem . |
| 11 | There have been fears for the future of Dangerfield Mills at Hawick since the spinning operation went into liquidation nearly 18 months ago . |
| 12 | Although there have been proponents for a connection between microbial productivity and Precambrian iron deposition , the paucity of microfossils and low organic carbon content of BIFs has been seen by some to constitute strong evidence against biological involvement . |