Example sentences of "had been [prep] [det] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attempts by " several gentlemen " to end these customs had been of little avail for a complaint of a very similar kind was still being made a century later . |
| 2 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 3 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
| 4 | When you had been in that world for a while you knew the way things would go . |
| 5 | This question is considered for people who had been in such homes for a year or more . |
| 6 | Often , all education was conducted by the internees themselves — English lessons being given by people who had been in this country for a number of years . |