Example sentences of "[been] [prep] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyone who has romantic ideas of what it must have been like for great women and men to be filled with God 's Spirit should think again if the story of Mary is anything to go by . |
| 2 | Everyone 's got their problems , and no-one knows what life 's been like for anyone else . |
| 3 | Mr Justice Judge told Mrs Salmon , of Park Gate , Hants : ‘ I ca n't imagine what the last 10 years must have been like for you waiting for this to be sorted out . ’ |
| 4 | To be greeted by complete strangers with instant derision was a sobering experience , and it vividly reminded me of what it must have been like for those first black people , in the eighteenth century , walking the streets of England freely . |
| 5 | There was no easy way to answer the bitterness in her voice , and Julia remembered what David had said about his mother 's probable feelings during the war and tried to imagine what it must have been like for Mrs Wallington , stuck in Scotland , knowing only a little but guessing all too much of what was happening to her own country — and to her two sons . |
| 6 | We forget what life must have been like for people without anaesthetics and painkillers . |
| 7 | You 've always been so strong that you do n't know what it 's been like for me since mother died . ’ |
| 8 | He always paid now , they were on the dole , two reminders of what it had been like for him a few months ago . |
| 9 | ‘ I want to make love to you , Claudia , ’ he says , ‘ I want to hold you in my arms all night tru ’ , I want to tell you what it 's been like for me without you , just missing you , missing you so bad like one of us had passed on . |
| 10 | Settling in , I looked out of the window and reflected on what it must have been like for the men building the Trans-Australia Railway when hundreds of navvies , using horses , camels and a few machines , battled their way across the inhospitable plain , which in winter crackles underfoot with frost while summer temperatures exceed a baking 50°C . |
| 11 | He says for the first time in his life , he 's known what life must have been like for the old masters . |
| 12 | £ But I think to give us perhaps a more vivid idea of what it must have been like for ordinary people , these are 3 houses in St Aldate 's that do n't exist any more , they 're down more-or-less where the police station is , erm and we do know exactly who lived there , and who was actually there during the war . |
| 13 | Kate could n't even justify it by saying it was a boy Lizzy loved , whom her daughter had been with for a long time and so sex was a natural progression . |
| 14 | One of the happiest parties I have been to for a long while was the one at Claridge 's given by Mr and Mrs John Newman , to celebrate the marriage of their daughter Miss Henrietta Newman to the Earl of Caledon , son of the late Earl of Caledon and the late Mrs Denis Alexander . |
| 15 | , how did you did you find it , going back to a heavy engineering plant like after having been at for a while ? |