Example sentences of "had been [adv] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 2 | If the hon. and learned Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) had been here for the speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) |
| 3 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 4 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
| 5 | The residents themselves recognised the move for some of the older , frailer people would be more difficult and those who had been there for the least time had agreed to go , he said . |