Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] be [adj] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I tried being polite for a long time , Aunt Ruth , and it got me nowhere . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd been miserable for a long time . |
| 3 | But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something . |
| 4 | I had been poorly for a while and could n't eat and the doctor thought it may be appendicitis so he sent me to Darlington Hospital . |
| 5 | There was a sort of thirstiness about Julia 's immersion in the conversation , as though she 'd been parched for a long time . |
| 6 | ‘ She 'd been ill for a long time . |
| 7 | She felt heavy-lidded and drowsy , as if she had been asleep for a week . |
| 8 | She had been worried for a bit but now she was certain . |
| 9 | Several thousand demostrators had taken to the streets , attacked " indecently dressed " women ( who they claimed were responsible for a drought ) , set fire to the head office of the Niger Women 's Association ( AFN ) , and also attacked the residences of the local prefect and sultan . |
| 10 | As two young married couples they had been close for a time when they lived near Stoke , although Carole had not got on at all well with Amaranth . |
| 11 | I think he 'd been better for a long time on and off |
| 12 | He wondered whether he 'd been asleep for a while , or just deep in thought . |
| 13 | It had been dark for an hour when I got back to the car park . |
| 14 | If it had been possible for a bird to stop still with surprise in the air , and stay exactly where it was , that rook would have done it then . |
| 15 | But it had been simmering for a couple of years before that . |
| 16 | He had been responsible for a number of important buildings which , as well as the Public Record Office , included part of the Ordnance Office ( 1850–1 ) , the Museum of Economic Geology in Piccadilly ( 1847–8 ) and the western portion of Somerset House ( 1851–6 ) . |
| 17 | They next claimed that he had been responsible for a murder in Belfast which had received considerable publicity . |
| 18 | He had been ill for a short time and when uremic poisoning developed , he was moved to a private ward in the Moose Jaw General Hospital . |
| 19 | Stable jockey Chris Grant said : ‘ He had been ill for a long while , but carried on because his horses were his life . ’ |
| 20 | The man was an aristocrat , inconceivably wealthy , brother to an Earl , a Member of Parliament , a Colonel — that he had been amiable for a couple of passing days was surely something she could accept , absorb and forget . |
| 21 | He was dressed in work clothes — tailored dark grey trousers and a cream shirt — but the latter was open at the neck and he wore no tie , suggesting that he had been ready for a relaxing Friday evening drink . |
| 22 | One of them had been unconscious for a while . |