Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [adj] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered whether he 'd been asleep for a while , or just deep in thought . |
| 2 | The laughter had been absent for a while , but it had not withdrawn far from him , the marks of its permanent habitation were still there . |
| 3 | One of them had been unconscious for a while . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But it had been simmering for a couple of years before that . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It had been dark for an hour when I got back to the car park . |
| 9 | She felt heavy-lidded and drowsy , as if she had been asleep for a week . |
| 10 | They reflected a concept that had been current for a number of years , that experiments in planning free zones ought to be devised ( Banham et al . , |
| 11 | Peter Armstrong , prosecuting , said the couple had been married for a year but had lived together for four years before marrying . |
| 12 | As they were mainly couples who had been married for a number of years and were now able to move to a larger , more expensive home , their children ranged in age between seven and nineteen years . |
| 13 | ( The French population tended to shift to the towns much more slowly ; we are told the rate was about 3 per cent per decade down to 1911 , and this had been true for a century . ) |
| 14 | The first seven members of the Roseberry co-operative had been unemployed for an average of five years and seven months when they began working on the Langridge Crescent site , and their growing band of colleagues has continued to include those frequently bypassed by mainstream employers in the construction industry : a deaf and dumb carpenter , a former labourer with a history of heart trouble , a young woman training to be a painter and others . |
| 15 | She had been worried for a bit but now she was certain . |
| 16 | SIGARUP HAD BEEN ILL FOR A WEEK . |
| 17 | Linkworth had been dead for an hour . |
| 18 | Warsaw police confirmed on April 24 that arsonists had been responsible for a fire on April 22 at the home of Jerzy Jachowicz , a journalist on Gazeta Wyborcza , in which his wife had been killed and his daughter injured . |
| 19 | They next claimed that he had been responsible for a murder in Belfast which had received considerable publicity . |
| 20 | 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 ) . |
| 21 | According to the authorities the commando had been responsible for a number of recent attacks in the province of Bilbao , which had claimed the lives of five people . |
| 22 | The big oil strike near Tollemarche had been responsible for an upheaval in the existing order ; and the fight for social status , before a fixed pecking order could be re-established , was a ruthless one , waged in every drawing-room , church hall and charitable institution . |
| 23 | The Chief had been quiet for a kilometre or two . |
| 24 | She said the house had been damp for a year and she had complained to the council on numerous occasions . |
| 25 | 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 . |