Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] had been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others still detained at the end of March had been held for almost 10 years . |
| 2 | The teacher was furious that the photograph taken in her new school on the outskirts of Middlesbrough had been used for political purposes . |
| 3 | Mike noticed a group of heavy gamblers , most of them Greek , move towards the baccarat room , where the Sultan of Rupolei had been losing for the last hour . |
| 4 | A consignment of vital arms for the war with the accursed President Sadeq of Iraq had been paid for by Teheran , to be delivered by ship . |
| 5 | A Swiss Certificate of Airworthiness had been issued for the aircraft and no evidence was found that any fault existed in the engines , airframe or controls prior to the accident . |
| 6 | Conversation with Alexei had been limited for the past day to standard matters of duty , and since he had not been able to think of anything which he could say to change his son 's attitude , he had allowed himself to accept that the state of affairs which existed between them was likely to be permanent . |
| 7 | The Iranian consulate in Geneva had been occupied for four hours on Dec. 14 , 1988 , by opponents of the Tehran regime and evidence had been found that Tale had been collecting information on the Iranian exile community in Switzerland . |
| 8 | Originally , some 424 acres ( 170 hectares ) of land in Cramlington had been designated for industrial development . |
| 9 | By Nov. 15 , 25 students in Oujda had been sentenced for up to nine years in prison for involvement in the disturbances . |
| 10 | In December 1989 officials refused to comment on reports that nine men arrested by police in August had been spying for Singapore . |
| 11 | The bovine TB bacterium was first isolated from a badger in June 1971 , some 20 years after farmers in Cornwall had been ridiculed for suggesting that badgers were involved in the spread of TB to cattle . |
| 12 | Gen. Ricardo Contreras , head of the Army Intelligence Battalion ( BIE ) which in September had been exposed for tapping civilian telephones [ see p. 39092 ] . |
| 13 | In addition , an attack toward Cambrai had been scheduled for November , and an offensive was due to begin in Italy . |