Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] be [noun pl] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the Miners ' Federation and the Amalgamated Engineering Union , which had been centres for anti-war activity in 1916 , the Communist position still received some support . |
| 2 | As could be anticipated , those who had been tenants for several years , and therefore qualified for bigger discounts , were over-represented among the purchasers . |
| 3 | What he overheard provided his first insight into the intimate sentiments of mature Fists who had been warriors for over seventy years — as the seven long-service studs on the craggy , crewcut forehead of each star-knight signified . |
| 4 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
| 5 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 6 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 8 | We had been lovers for a year or so . |
| 9 | We had been colleagues for years and , as I say , I was having difficulty focussing . |
| 10 | As the mourners left the Church , there had been plans for a Spitfire to fly over in a final tribute . |
| 11 | There had been complaints for many years from the canal 's users , fed up with waiting in long queues at one end for the procession of boats to clear from the other ; like sitting at traffic lights that never change to green . |
| 12 | There had been fears for her life but she had recovered . |
| 13 | There had been offers for the shop which his father had consistently turned down . |
| 14 | There had been calls for the removal , even the court-martialling , of the general concerned , but the army had defended the latter and he had been allowed to complete the campaign . |
| 15 | There had been calls for Belkheir 's resignation after the Algerian press pointed out that the " special intervention unit " charged with Boudiaf 's security came under Interior Ministry control . |
| 16 | There had been cries for his public execution but Jamel Mobuto had made it quite clear that Ngune would be tried and , if found guilty , sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 17 | Hoyland saw his job as trying to impose some order on his boss 's whirlwind operating methods , which had caused such irritation amongst the others that there had been demands for his dismissal . |
| 18 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 19 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |
| 20 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 21 | They had been friends for eight long years , and now they had reached the parting of the ways . |
| 22 | They had been friends for two years , best friends Jessica might have said , with her formal , respectable private education in County Down , but some of their actions and their attitudes were miles apart , centuries , planets . |
| 23 | They had been friends for long enough , they 'd been to school together for a little while until geography had pushed them apart , then they 'd met up again as older teenagers , both interested in bars and snooker , then in girls . |
| 24 | More than half the respondents , 54 per cent , said they had been readers for at least ten years and three quarters ( 76 per cent ) had been readers for five years . |