Example sentences of "and had [be] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 2 | To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days . |
| 3 | As veteran commentator George Melly remarked : ‘ The trad boom was both unexpected and untypical ; its heroes were far older than the norm and had been around for much longer ; the emphasis was instrumental rather than vocal ; the sexual aspect was almost non-existent . ’ |
| 4 | Even while it was registering on her from the newspapers in his hands that he was no lie-a-bed but was up and had been out for his paper , he was taking in the damp , startled look of her and , feigning surprise himself , ‘ It 's a mermaid ! ’ he declared . |
| 5 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |