Example sentences of "i [vb past] [be] [prep] [noun prp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |
| 2 | One afternoon , when I had been at Lowood for three weeks , a visitor arrived . |
| 3 | I had been at Bourn for two years and had seen many people come and go , but if I had had a choice I would not have chosen to go to Group Headquarters . |
| 4 | By now I had been in Brobdingnag for about two years . |
| 5 | I had been in Styal for a few months and I kept putting in for an open prison , but they kept saying no . |