Example sentences of "had [been] [adj] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Owen had been conscious for some time of growing movement in the courtyard below . |
| 32 | Its importance as a sire had been obvious for many years as its progeny had proved their worth in the show ring and at stud . |
| 33 | For thirty-six years she had been convenient for this purpose . |
| 34 | Mr Moores said the manager had been worried for some time that he was not feeling as well as he thought he should . |
| 35 | These tenements had been empty for several years , the small shopfronts that once elbowed each other along the street boarded up . |
| 36 | It had been empty for several years and was dirty , damp and severely vandalised . |
| 37 | When we first hear of it , the house had been empty for some time , and Albert Piggott deplored its neglect . |
| 38 | That was still untended and wild ; the house had been empty for some time before they bought it , or rather Mr Paul had . |
| 39 | The house had been empty for some time now and beginning to feel lonely . |
| 40 | They were also helped into their new home by a team of volunteers who took on the task of cleaning the offices which had been empty for some time . |
| 41 | Punch Magazine : April 8 , aged 150 : The satirical publication had been ill for many years with circulation falling to 33,000 . |
| 42 | He had been ill for many months and his five-year term would not have been renewed at the National People 's Congress which starts on Monday . |
| 43 | DeRoburt , 69 , who had been ill for several years , had been President of Nauru from independence in 1968 until 1989 , apart from short interludes in 1976-68 ( when he was Leader of the Opposition ) and 1986 . |
| 44 | She had been ill for some time , and gradually realized that she needed more care than could be given by the community services . |
| 45 | She had been ill for some time and , driving back again to Cardiff to join my father , I reflected on the sadness that parents can never know what their children owe them . |
| 46 | I know your mother had been ill for some time , but I know that this will not have lessened the loss you and your family must now feel . |
| 47 | He had been ill for some time . |
| 48 | Roach , who was a producer , director and screenwriter , had been ill for some time and was under the care of doctors of the Motion Picture and Television Fund Hospital , a hospital spokeswoman said . |
| 49 | He had been ill for some time , and passed away peacefully on 12 April . |
| 50 | A doctor examined the body and decided that the man had been dead for several hours . |
| 51 | They had been dead for several days when police were called in by neighbours in the millionaire 's district of Rancho Sante Fe , near San Diego , California . |
| 52 | Examining her responses to this normal catalogue of everyday events , of life , she found that she wished she was dead , had been dead for some time , so that she was used to it : and then she thought that if she had been dead for long enough , she would probably be bored with that by now . |
| 53 | It had been silent for several minutes . |
| 54 | The weather had been fine for some days and the mood was right . |
| 55 | What quirk of the feminine psyche had been responsible for that decision ? |