Example sentences of "had been [verb] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And she cried out as a cascade of fireworks seemed to explode deep within her , before their bodies , now moving in perfect unison , recaptured the fierce , tumultuous pleasure they had always shared in the past — the total consummation which she had been denied for so long . |
| 2 | She was well aware that it would seem thoroughly feeble — if not downright pathetic — to refuse to accompany him to New York simply because they had been separated for almost five years . |
| 3 | X-ray fibre diffraction data had been obtained for both the A and B forms of DNA by Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins at King 's College , London , but they lacked the phase data necessary to solve the structure . |
| 4 | This time she had been sent for urgently because Nigel had taken a turn for the worse — in fact , had nearly died after his peritonitis operation . |
| 5 | The doctor had been sent for immediately she collapsed , but there was nothing he could do to save her . |
| 6 | as if whatever he had done had cut him off from the mercy he had been seeking for so long . |
| 7 | By Nov. 15 , 25 students in Oujda had been sentenced for up to nine years in prison for involvement in the disturbances . |
| 8 | Most of the sample group ( 82 per cent ) had been using for over two years before they first sought treatment . |
| 9 | The astonishing economic achievements of the golden years led many to conclude that capitalism had undergone a qualitative transformation — that the bad old days of slumps and class antagonisms had been transcended for ever . |
| 10 | Sheila , who had been ringing for over 20 years , told me that her father and grandfather had both been ringers . |
| 11 | A baby — and the designer Edouard had been searching for so long . |
| 12 | One reason for its universal acceptance is that whereas noble metals and precious stones first rose to prominence in the context of civilized societies ivory had been recognized for much longer . |
| 13 | The defendant 's fourth sub-head of complaint was that the judge did this when the jury had been deliberating for only an hour , citing Reg. v. McKenna [ 1960 ] 1 Q.B . |
| 14 | There was no evidence as to what the Perots ' attitude would have been if they had been asked for more than $2.5m. for Caliban . |
| 15 | The bull market had been raging for more than five years in the US . |
| 16 | He confirmed that she had been invited for both the church service and the lunch . |
| 17 | I waited ; a pick-up had been arranged for 5.30pm and I was certain it would not fail me . |
| 18 | Buckby , who is also secretary of the Langbaurgh Schools Cross Country Association , said he had been trying for nearly ten years to have the rule changed . |
| 19 | Ellie ran upstairs , threw off her old blouse and skirt and her much darned stockings , and got hurriedly dressed in her Sunday best , yet another variation on the plain black dress with detachable collar and cuffs she had been wearing for as long as she could remember . |
| 20 | Douglas Gray of Middleton in Teesdale said he had been complaining for over two years about undelivered letters and hit out at the ‘ uncaring attitude ’ of the Post Office in Darlington . |
| 21 | The hut had been cared for inside as well as out and it was being used . |
| 22 | He added that the inquiry had been hampered for about 24 hours by the violence on Tuesday night . |
| 23 | Churchill 's personal popularity had been vouched for invariably by above 75% of the respondents , and the government , though poorly regarded during the setbacks to British arms in 1942 , after the battle of El Alamein was never below 70% . |
| 24 | Reintroduction of the Law on entry to and exit from the USSR had been delayed for almost 18 months in committee since its first reading . |
| 25 | The resignations occurred amid continuing controversy over the handling of the security services by Richard Sacher , the federal Minister of the Interior [ see p. 37382 ] , who had been criticized for not proceeding rapidly enough with the removal of StB officers from the ministry . |
| 26 | As a large consumer of Middle Eastern oil , Japan had been criticized for not making a fuller contribution to the international effort against Iraq . |
| 27 | The St Petersburg company had been criticized for increasingly right-wing broadcasting . |
| 28 | With these additions the unitary principle , supposedly at the heart of the Redcliffe-Maud recommendations , had been rejected for nearly 20 million people out of England 's population of approximately 45 million . |
| 29 | What hostility did not do was deflect him from his purpose , so that by the time the regime fell in 1870 Paris had been altered for ever and bore the mark of Napoleon III . |
| 30 | The Darkfall storm had been building for quite some time , generating itself , growing stronger . |