Example sentences of "had [be] [adv prt] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , a while ago I mentioned that a guy called Alan Byrne had been over for a trial , in Elland Road , from Shamrock Rovers in Dublin . |
| 2 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 3 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 4 | Modernism , by then , had been around for a long time , and much of it looked ready to be stacked away into the attic . |
| 5 | So , eager to help , she went over to him , he had been around for a while but he was strange so nobody really spoke to him . |
| 6 | Henry , morose , defiant and all but monosyllabic , had been out for a drink early in the evening , but had returned before nine with his younger brother , Francis , with whom he shared a small cottage . |
| 7 | She and Lewis had been out for a meal the night before . |
| 8 | If it had been out for a walk or you know ? |
| 9 | The party of young Australians had been out for a meal , and had stopped to take photographs , when Roermond 's market square echoed to gunfire . |
| 10 | Most of the third-year students had been back for a month already , desperately trying to catch up with their second-year work . |
| 11 | Daisy had been back for a long time ; she looked white and pinched . |