Example sentences of "had been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Jean-Paul Scarpitta , her ‘ cultural adviser ’ , meanwhile had been indicted for ‘ forgery and embezzlement of public funds ’ and only released from bail of FFr1.2 million after the second inventory . |
| 34 | In April 22 traders were charged with illegal trading , and the Justice Department announced on Aug. 2 that a total of 46 traders had been indicted for futures fraud . |
| 35 | In addition aid money from the food programme , which by 1989 was worth $1,300 million per year to Iraq in loan guarantees , was channelled through the Atlanta branch of the Italian-owned Banca Nazionale del Lavoro , officials of which had been indicted for a separate multi-million dollar fraud involving arms for Iraq in 1989 [ see pp. 37425-26 ] . |
| 36 | It had been recognised for some time that only through rationalisation into larger productive and distributive units could the movement overcome the damaging rivalries among societies in the same neighbourhood , and through economies of scale promote further growth . |
| 37 | Why of course : the Essoldo had been built for these middle class folk in the 1930s — they were Patrons ! |
| 38 | The little tin house had been built for the friend 's father-in-law who had been the captain of the steamer based on inland Loch Awe . |
| 39 | It was not in any way grand : simply a solid nineteenth-century country residence with a small courtyard and a pleasant garden sloping down to the river ; the sort of place , Celia reckoned , which had been built for a man of some substance : a prosperous merchant or , more likely , a gentleman farmer , the land having been incorporated into the nearby estate . |
| 40 | Some thought that far too many opulent and now half-empty movie palaces had been built for the elusive fashionable trade whilst others detected a more general dulling of the palate as the masses lost their enthusiasm for the old stories and seemed all too ready for something new . |
| 41 | Right at the end a glass pavilion had been built for concerts and parties , and Gran said people had come from as far away as Lancaster . |
| 42 | But it was Raynor who told her things about the Castle she did not know ; how it had been built for the first High Queen of all , and how the ancient pure magic had been woven into its walls . |
| 43 | The cottage itself was not exactly pretty : red-brick and foursquare , it had been built for a farm labourer and his family in the middle of the last century . |
| 44 | It had been built for Mr King 's grandfather in the days when he was known as Collector of Mails . |
| 45 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 46 | The sense of being part of a general flux had been lost for years . |
| 47 | The year Lydia had bought her cottage a young person had died and Lydia had been lost for words , as people are in the face of tragedy . |
| 48 | Her blouse fell open and her naked breast was warmed by the hot sun and his mouth drawing her desire from deep within her , a desire she thought had been lost for no other man would have been able to free it , no other but him . |
| 49 | Some said at the time that Leviathan had been written for Cromwell , and indeed Hobbes did say that it supported a ‘ conscientious obedience to the present government ’ of the Protectorate . |
| 50 | He presumed they had been written for him to use as references for his next employer , but he tore them up angrily . |
| 51 | One ‘ character ’ , Sharon , the schoolgirl who loves ( among other things ) the Brontes , had been written for Sugar and Spite and she did n't depend on rhyme for her humour and seemed less steam-radio-Stanley-Holloway-meets-Flanders-and-Swann-meets-Joyce-Grenfell-old-fashioned . |
| 52 | Einstein , which had been written for the Philip Glass Ensemble , was followed by Satyagraha ( ‘ truth-force ) , a more lyrical opera utilising full orchestra which was concerned with Gandhi 's early years in South Africa and the development of his philosophy of non-violence . |
| 53 | It had been written for an age when wind was still the motive power for most of the world 's shipping , so that , though technically out of date , it was invaluable for some of the work I was doing , particularly wire splicing , and if we were rolled over and had to jury-rig the ship it would be a life saver . |
| 54 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 55 | Alexei had been listening for other footsteps coming along the bridge . |
| 56 | If a business takes on more debt , its calculations can be thrown out by two things : if the interest cost of servicing the debt rises by more than was expected ; and if the cash flow earned by the business falls by more than had been planned for . |
| 57 | The strike had erupted on Oct. 3 over the interpretation of a collective labour contract , and a general strike had been planned for Oct. 16 by 100,000 other banana workers affiliated to the Confederation of Honduran Workers in support of those on strike . |
| 58 | This exercise had been planned for September 1992 , but was now brought forward . |
| 59 | It gave Patrick the feeling that their every move had been planned for them by Comrade Ceauŝescu himself . |
| 60 | Long 's health had been deteriorating for years , but he had kept open his channels of communication ; like Law his influence was based on years of devotion to the interests of the party , and like Law 's that influence had been used to argue the case for coalition . |