Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | She had been amenorrhoeic for six months before her first attendance at this hospital . |
| 32 | Examining her responses to this normal catalogue of everyday events , of life , she found that she wished she was dead , had been dead for some time , so that she was used to it : and then she thought that if she had been dead for long enough , she would probably be bored with that by now . |
| 33 | She had been independent for too long . |
| 34 | She had been worried for a bit but now she was certain . |
| 35 | The motif of the yoke was originally the emblem of Isabella of Castile , Mariana 's distant predecessor , who had been responsible for sending Columbus on his first transatlantic voyage in 1492 ; in other words she had been responsible for initiating the whole colonial process ( Fig. 12 ) . |
| 36 | All she knew was that she had been miserable for the rest of the night , and only a teasing conversation with him the next afternoon , when he was dressed very casually in blue jeans and a white T-shirt , had cheered her up again . |
| 37 | She had been ready for the road , then Mr Arthur died . |
| 38 | At ten to seven she had been ready for twenty minutes . |
| 39 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 40 | She had been ill for some time and , driving back again to Cardiff to join my father , I reflected on the sadness that parents can never know what their children owe them . |
| 41 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 42 | On admission she had been anuric for 24 h ( haemoglobin 4.4 g/dL , potassium 4.1 mmol/L , creatinine 937 mmol/L , urea 119 mmol/L , lactic dehydrogenase 3327 IU/L , platelets 71×10/L ) . |
| 43 | He gave her so much pleasure when she was with him and she had been lonely for so long . |
| 44 | British Airways staff are fantastic , whatever class you travel , and plied Kenneth with enough booze to soften the effect of two Sun journalists who approached us for a story and picture after we 'd been airborne for about eight hours . |
| 45 | ‘ They 'd been married for nearly forty years , did you know that ? ’ she said in a small voice . |
| 46 | But she never suspecting it was , you know , when they 'd been alright for seven years you |
| 47 | As two young married couples they had been close for a time when they lived near Stoke , although Carole had not got on at all well with Amaranth . |
| 48 | They had been married for more years than she and Rob had lived . |
| 49 | They had been married for only a few weeks before he had been hacked down by a sabre . |
| 50 | They had been married for about a year . |
| 51 | When Esther visited Alix and Sebastian , they had been married for three weeks , and the marriage had been consummated . |
| 52 | They had been married for fifty years , but was his mother forty-nine or only forty-eight ? |
| 53 | He spoke as if they had been married for years , and could joke about sharing a bed . |
| 54 | they had been married for two years but had as yet no offspring . |
| 55 | They had been free for nearly a month . |
| 56 | There was a clear feeling on the part of some Councillors that , since the School was no longer under their sole control and since they now had their own Technical School to worry about ( they had been responsible for its organization and financing from March 1892 ) , they need no longer be too concerned about the Grammar School . |
| 57 | They had been dead for several days when police were called in by neighbours in the millionaire 's district of Rancho Sante Fe , near San Diego , California . |
| 58 | The Book of Remembering was for remembering the animals but they had been dead for twenty thousand years . |
| 59 | During the follow up period there were only five ears in which fluid recurred and persisted for at least one year after they had been clear for at least one year . |
| 60 | It was difficult to explain , but he 'd been uneasy for the last few minutes : not an emotion he 'd ever had much experience of before . |