Example sentences of "had be [adj] for [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 2 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 3 | When he returned to the Gold Coast he had been absent for 12 years : he had departed far too young to have made any mark . |
| 4 | Of the remaining 176 ( 38 per cent ) , 16 had been present for 20–45 years and two for an astonishing 50 years . |
| 5 | An example of this is the case of a lady of forty-five who attended the clinic with neuralgia which had been present for some years . |
| 6 | Disparate and haphazard as it was , one thing is certain : popular discontent with the system had been general for several years . |
| 7 | She had been amenorrhoeic for six months before her first attendance at this hospital . |
| 8 | The annual floods had been low for some years , and conditions in the villages were very bad . |
| 9 | Party contributions had been compulsory for all citizens prior to the RPT 's dissolution . |
| 10 | It was an argument that had been simmering for two days , and it was clear he was beginning to waver . |
| 11 | Tension along the 38th parallel had been serious for some months : General Hodge informed the joint chiefs of staff in January 1948 that both the south Korean police and north Korean border guards were engaged in sporadic attacks on one another . |
| 12 | It had been worse for ten days . |
| 13 | In London , just before the war , almost no one had heard of Paul Klee , although in Germany he had been famous for some years . |
| 14 | She noted the greasy chenille tablecloth which was threadbare where the table edge cut into it — a sure sign , Nelly knew , that the cloth had been undisturbed for many months . |
| 15 | They had been married for fifty years , but was his mother forty-nine or only forty-eight ? |
| 16 | She had been married for five years and it took as many years again to finalise the divorce . |
| 17 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |
| 18 | When Alan and Carolyn had been married for four years , Alan 's grandmother ( Lucy 's mother ) died , leaving him and Pamela £20,000 each . |
| 19 | A wife , who had been married for six years , consulted the defendant firm of solicitors about her divorce proceedings . |
| 20 | ‘ Elsie and Simon had been married for six years or so when she disappeared . |
| 21 | Mother and Father had been married for six years and I was to be their only child . |
| 22 | Colette and Bernard had been married for fifteen years . |
| 23 | they had been married for two years but had as yet no offspring . |
| 24 | When Esther visited Alix and Sebastian , they had been married for three weeks , and the marriage had been consummated . |
| 25 | She had been married for 19 years and had four children ( aged between 12 and 17 years ) . |
| 26 | I had been married for seven hours . |
| 27 | They had been married for more years than she and Rob had lived . |
| 28 | Mrs Ireland had been married for thirty-nine years . |
| 29 | Donald and Sheila Baughan had been married for 20 years . |
| 30 | Elizabeth and Harry had been married for ten years , both for a second time . |