Example sentences of "and [vb past] be [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was 24 and had been married for four years before I discovered I was a lesbian . |
| 2 | She was an Irish Catholic woman of twenty-eight and had been married for nearly two years . |
| 3 | When several of us got down there the CO informed us that we had to fly down the Gulf to look for an Imperial Airways airliner , one of those Armstrong Whitworth Argosys which was named City of Glasgow , and had been overdue for sometime . |
| 4 | The one I found was run down , anyway , and had been empty for years . ’ |
| 5 | Both the US Navy and Army had run their own intelligence departments since the early 1880s while the FBI had been in existence since 1910 and had been responsible for collating foreign intelligence . |
| 6 | The issue of the Securitate , which had maintained Ceausescu in power and had been responsible for the bloodshed in the week following the revolution , was another factor which fuelled mistrust . |
| 7 | Chaabane had in June 1991 been appointed " first adviser to the President on human rights " [ see p. 38363 ] and had been responsible for explaining abroad the government 's policy towards the Islamic movement and on electoral reform . |