Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [been] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | He thought back to how it had been for him last winter . |
| 32 | Nothing now would have induced Meredith to sign his petition , whatever it had been for . |
| 33 | If possible , life was harder even for these ragged redskins than it had been for their forefathers after the war with Rope Thrower , when their livelihood had been deliberately burned away from them . |
| 34 | That 's the way it had been for longer than she could remember . |
| 35 | In all the most important affairs of life , liberty remained for him what it had been for the last thirty years , a state of will which could not depart from rectitude . |
| 36 | At least until 1917 , and to some extent even until 1945 , Europe was the decisive arena of world power , as it had been for centuries . |
| 37 | Accordingly , he attempted to shift Marxism away from orthodox theories of an absolute determinism towards the primacy of a concept of ‘ History ’ which , while still a totality as it had been for Lukács , a process with a determinate meaning and end , could also include a concept of human agency and thus articulate the individual with the social , freedom with determinism . |
| 38 | It was how it had been for the past two weeks and the young woman tried to ignore her protesting muscles and her aching back as she stared into the hearth and watched the tiny flames flickering in and out of the carefully banked-up grate . |
| 39 | Carrie knew how hard it had been for her father , who had spent almost thirty-seven years as a horsekeeper for Galloway , to look for other employment . |
| 40 | Police reports suggested that the countryside was more quiescent than it had been for generations . |
| 41 | In his pronouncements , science was no longer subordinate to theology in the way it had been for Roger Bacon , Thomas Aquinas , or Nicole Oresme . |
| 42 | He had no idea what an effort it had been for Topaz to keep up the easy flow of chatter . |
| 43 | I 'm sure it was , Patrick grinned as he walked down the corridor and climbed the half-dozen steps from the servants ' quarters up to the hall ; he had seen the look on the butler 's face , and knew how uncomfortable it had been for him . |
| 44 | There was also what was to become a recurrent feature of Gilkes 's reports — as indeed it had been for a half a century already — regret at the parents ' lack of faith or courage , which resulted in boys leaving early and not going on to University . |
| 45 | It had been necessary to handle the appointment rather delicately , as when the post was originally advertised it had been for a boys ' school , 600 strong ; with the anticipated changes this would soon develop into a co-educational establishment of up to 1,000 . |
| 46 | In 1817 England was still , as it had been for centuries , an agricultural nation , only 20 per cent of the population living in towns . |
| 47 | In the eighteenth century the possession of land was still , as it had been for centuries , the only firm basis of influence and power . |
| 48 | Indeed , it was better than it had been for months . |
| 49 | Hours passed and the wind worsened to the strongest it had been for days . |
| 50 | In cases where marriage has been discussed , pregnancy is not unwelcome , and may even have been anticipated , as it had been for Claire , who married her husband when she was five months pregnant . |
| 51 | Her father 's order book was better filled than it had been for years , her mother 's health seemed good , Eileen was happy in her work as a pools clerk , and Tony and Helen were happily planning their wedding . |
| 52 | The NVA representative who wrote to tell her of the decision explained that although he must have ‘ seemed unsympathetic in the past ’ , it had been for her own good . |
| 53 | Last time it had been for a length of dress material . |
| 54 | He had seen how entirely wrong it had been for him to have assumed that Beatrice Throgmorton would look twice at him . |
| 55 | The luncheon table was laid as it had been for 50 Christmases , with a pyramid of polished John Standish apples from Somerset in the middle , flanked by Christmas roses and trails of ivy . |
| 56 | I was mean-minded enough to wish it had been for longer . |
| 57 | He paused and gave her an intense look that revealed a little of how it had been for him . |
| 58 | Still , she kept the place tidier than it had been for months and she did n't mistreat Springsteen , or if she did he did n't complain about it . |
| 59 | Convenience , that 's what it had been for her — little more . |
| 60 | But , I think it would be illusory to think that we can maintain our profits from land in ninety three at the same level as it had been for ninety one and two . |