Example sentences of "[pron] had [be] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 2 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 3 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |
| 4 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |
| 5 | No war correspondent , however , could have described the gloom that pervaded the air , or the look of hopelessness ingrained on the faces of anyone who had been there for more than a few days . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Because then it was that she knew , with blinding clarity , what had been there for some time now . |