Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [pron] have been for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at the time I felt rejected and useless , because I was n't needed in the way I had been for so long. , |
| 2 | That 's the way it had been for longer than she could remember . |
| 3 | In his pronouncements , science was no longer subordinate to theology in the way it had been for Roger Bacon , Thomas Aquinas , or Nicole Oresme . |
| 4 | It 's just the way it 's been for years . |
| 5 | That is the way he conducts his business and that is the way it has been for centuries . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years , ’ Mrs Smith said . |
| 7 | ‘ I know David and Cath were planning a normal family Christmas at home , the way it has been for several years . |
| 8 | I show him how much I 've written here , how good a place it has been for me . |
| 9 | It takes you a long while to realise what a twit you 've been for so long . |
| 10 | These maxims , many of them reflecting nothing more than common sense , and taken from the recorded experience of the past , were to be found mainly in two works : the Facta et dicta memorabilia of Valerius Maximus , written in the first century AD , and the Stratagemata of Frontinus , composed in the same century by a man who had been for a short while Roman governor of Britain . |
| 11 | He had no idea what an effort it had been for Topaz to keep up the easy flow of chatter . |