Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] been [adj] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ? |
| 2 | They had all been dead for several days . |
| 3 | Interest rates had already been low for twenty years when the turnpike mania began in 1750 and remained low after it ended in 1772 . |
| 4 | Although Valerie had not been present for any of the discussion among governors and teachers on the appointing committee ? her remarks were not all that far removed from what had transpired . |
| 5 | Too numerous to list here individually , most were of early-1980s , vintage and had not been airworthy for some time . |
| 6 | A State Department spokesman said that according to the US-led task force , coalition forces had not been responsible for any of the deaths . |
| 7 | The council 's permission to the joint purchase was required because the woman had not been resident for six months . |
| 8 | They had probably been married for some thirty-odd years , perhaps longer . |
| 9 | She had guessed that the reason was something to do with Jennifer for she had known that her sister had n't been well for some while and had been undergoing tests since experiencing stabbing pain in her right eye and numbness in her legs . |
| 10 | But then they had n't been alone for any time before . |
| 11 | Russia in 1917 had indeed been ripe for socialist revolution ; Lenin had applied the science of society with brilliant precision ; and under the guidance of Marxism-Leninism the party had provided unfailing leadership of the working masses from that day to this . |
| 12 | The military authorities in Baku moved against the Azerbaijan Popular Front on Jan. 24 , arresting 43 leading members and raiding the offices of the National Defence Council , a radical group allied to the Front which had allegedly been responsible for co-ordinating arms supplies to Azerbaijani militants . |