Example sentences of "'d [been] [verb] for [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family . |
| 2 | And then maybe after it 'd been cut for two days , you were sent out to turn the swathes , up all you went along and you turned them and turned them . |
| 3 | She 'd been divorced for 12 years . |
| 4 | Mr Probyn is being questioned about the death of his wife , Tanya , who was 28 , and who 'd been missing for six days before her body was found in her car in the River Severn . |
| 5 | She 'd been missing for 24 hours , her disappearance reported by her boyfriend , himself arrested and questioned by police , but then released . |
| 6 | His pelvis fractured and back broken , he 'd been hospitalized for eighteen months , was undergoing final therapy and still a lieutenant in the Finnish Air Force when , on June 25 , 1941 , Finland joined forces with Nazi Germany and declared war on Russia . |
| 7 | He 'd been held for eleven days . |
| 8 | ‘ He 'd been held for four months . |
| 9 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 10 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 11 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 12 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
| 13 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |