Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been asked for twelve and it was now half past eleven , which would give her time for a pleasant comfortable drive to Carpendens Court . |
| 2 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |
| 3 | Checking through her notes , the doctor saw that she had been treated for vaginal thrush on several occasions . |
| 4 | She had been paralysed for thirty years . |
| 5 | Betty Bell was the chief informant about Harold Shoosmith for she had been engaged for three mornings and three evenings a week . |
| 6 | She had been jailed for seven days . |
| 7 | She had been widowed for five months , very nearly . |
| 8 | We had been affianced for some weeks . ’ |
| 9 | We had been held for three and a half years and we still had no idea when we might be released . |
| 10 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 11 | When they had been seated for some time Titch said : ‘ I suppose you 've heard the news ? ’ |
| 12 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 13 | Uscfrea and Yffi died in infancy in Gaul among the Franks , where they had been sent for greater safety ( HE 11 , 20 ) . |
| 14 | Yet they were now learning to kiss as if they had been made for one another , she thought in panic . |
| 15 | She had brought glasses and dishes from home , she said ; they had been boxed for many years too long . |
| 16 | Often they had been laid for commercial purposes , including coal mining , but were becoming disused . |
| 17 | But they had been chosen for some little time already . |
| 18 | They had been provided for many years by the YWCA , and other urban based and normally middle class-run charitable societies dispensing relief and assistance . |
| 19 | Viking is way behind schedule : it had been intended for this quarter , but StorageTek said that based on the present status of the product and schedule estimates it expects IBM-compatible products based on Viking architecture to be available in the second half of 1994 . |
| 20 | The schedule of accommodation which forms the basic document around which the rest of the building note is developed , and which I shall illustrate , was prepared , for this particular group of patients , in precisely the same way as it had been done for some of the other sub-groups within mental illness and mental handicapped for which various supplements have been prepared to which I referred above . |
| 21 | It had been recognised for some time that only through rationalisation into larger productive and distributive units could the movement overcome the damaging rivalries among societies in the same neighbourhood , and through economies of scale promote further growth . |
| 22 | The pose is certainly borrowed from Egypt , where it had been used for male figures for centuries . |
| 23 | It had been used for many years as a staff hostel for an Oxford Street department store . |
| 24 | Our use of some light music on the Fort San Programme was excused because it had been requested for those patients recovering in hospital . |
| 25 | To find conditions leading to the formation of stable complexes we investigated whether the addition in the incubation mixture of the first two initiating NTPs relieved the heparin sensitivity , as it had been described for other promoters with similar characteristics ( 8 ) . |
| 26 | So small an area of land was available in Barbados when it turned to sugar in the 1640s that land prices were pushed up to ten times the level at which it had been sold for growing tobacco . |
| 27 | It had been known for some time that relations between Stephenson and Villa were strained because of the player 's insistence on living in his home-town of Newcastle , and several clubs , keen to secure him , were watching the situation closely . |
| 28 | He had been earmarked for senior management and his posting to the US was intended to serve a double purpose . |
| 29 | His hair , untended , curled thick as a dog 's at his neck under a shapeless wool cap , and his mind was turned patently inwards ; far from seeking , or even thinking of the men from whom he had been parted for six weeks . |
| 30 | He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low . |