Example sentences of "and [noun prp] [verb] [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jasper and Bert had been gone for ten days . |
| 2 | The Caledonides of Britain and Ireland and the Hercynides of France , Spain and Portugal have been selected for study as representatives of the two main stratigraphic and structural domains of western Europe . |
| 3 | Charlotte and Alexander have been waiting for years . |
| 4 | Tom Dreaper could not convince him that racing was a business to be taken seriously , and Foinavon had been sold for 2,000 guineas . |
| 5 | Dr Gilbert has pointed out that when the evangelist Hannah More remarked in 1789 on the existence of whole village populations no less estranged from the services of the Church than were heathens , she was belatedly recognising something which Wesley and Whitefield had been proclaiming for decades . |
| 6 | Thus , tests for organisms such as E coli and Shigella have been developed for use on drinking water supplies . |
| 7 | Donald and Elinor had been talking for thirty minutes . |
| 8 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 9 | And Orlick had been arrested for breaking into Pumblechook 's house and stealing his money . |
| 10 | The year Lydia had bought her cottage a young person had died and Lydia had been lost for words , as people are in the face of tragedy . |
| 11 | Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now . |
| 12 | She and Caan had been separated for three years . |
| 13 | On Sept. 17 it was announced that the defence and economic co-operation accord between the USA and Turkey had been extended for another year . |
| 14 | And Nicholas had been sent for . |
| 15 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , the cancelled shows at Cambridge , Birmingham and London have been rescheduled for January , along with a number of additional dates . |