Example sentences of "[pron] had been [verb] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
| 2 | The canyon ran parallel to the continuation of the wadi which I had been following for days . |
| 3 | He stated that in New York , regarding practical experience , the only bodies that trainee embalmers could obtain were unclaimed ones which had been refrigerated for months , and not just a few hours old , as is the popular myth in this country . |
| 4 | Moulvi Ali Zoha , a Rohingya Muslim who arrived in Bangladesh on Monday , told United News , a Bangladeshi news agency , that the soldiers were angered when the Muslims broke open the doors of the mosque , which had been locked for months since the Burmese authorities clamped down on the Rohingyas . |
| 5 | Repeated doses of bad news from the front generated mounting criticism of government incompetence ; ministerial confidence was visibly shaken ; and discontent which had been smouldering for years burst into flame . |
| 6 | For a start there were the Trumper 's advertisements on TV — a whole series of them , which had been running for years . |
| 7 | Since the Second World War the family has entered the international arena by its contributions to multi-racial education in Africa , by establishing the International Students ' House in London for students from overseas , and by founding the Michael Wills Scholarships at Oxford University to replace the Rhodes Scholarships which had been discontinued for Germans in 1939 . |
| 8 | She had been intending for days to make a start on clearing out the cloakroom ; now was the moment — she would make a preliminary survey , set aside what should be kept , see if there was anything good enough for Oxfam . |
| 9 | She had been prepared for tubes , drips , oxygen masks , machines that bleeped frantically , and anxious , hovering doctors in white coats ; not Bella , as truculent as ever , sitting up demanding cups of tea . |
| 10 | It felt as if she had been travelling for days instead of only one , on and off , and she arrived as dusk was falling . |
| 11 | This script began with Aunt Lilian 's release from the shabby asylum in which she had been held for decades . |
| 12 | She was not unexpected ; she had been coming for months . |
| 13 | There were some who had been destined for fighters , especially Meteors , who found themselves headed for a dreaded bomber tour . |
| 14 | In R. v. Jordan ( 1967 ) Jordan , who had been sentenced for offences under the Race Relations Act 1965 , applied for a writ of habeas corpus claiming that he had been convicted under an invalid law . |
| 15 | Later , a government-backed radio statement singled out alleged attempts by environmentalist to " frustrate " the timber industry in Sarawak , and deplored the fact that campaigners who had been arrested for crimes committed in the state were treated as " heroes and martyrs " by the environmental movement . |
| 16 | It never occurred to me that anyone who had been starving for years would feel an incredible , overwhelming urge to eat that was both physical and emotional . |
| 17 | Even more part of it than Rosie , who had been coming for years . |
| 18 | We had been looking for tasks that were : |
| 19 | By searching for flashes repeating at exactly the same rate as the radio pulses , they were able to investigate much fainter pulsations than if they had been looking for pulses occurring at an unknown rate . |
| 20 | They first told police they had been hunting for foxes . |
| 21 | MIT members were shown , in detail , the market which they had been trying for years to service . |
| 22 | THEY had been nit-picking for weeks . |
| 23 | Having accepted the ground rules , all the Grants appreciated and relished a structure that allowed a degree of communication they had been missing for years . |
| 24 | She did n't know if they had been driving for minutes or days . |
| 25 | Hangman 's Wood suffered so severely from the gales because , like much of our woodlands , it had been neglected for decades . |
| 26 | That was kept in a cabinet — but ‘ regrettably , ’ said Mr Boal , the lock on it had been broken for months . |
| 27 | It may never have been genuinely effective , or it may have failed because the organism lost its antibiotic properties when it had been grown for years in artificial cultures , or because its commercial manufacture was inadequately supervised . |
| 28 | Others have progressed rapidly in the beginning , only to experience considerable difficulty in overcoming the final hurdle — almost as though the mind was loath to give up a fear to which it had been clinging for years . |
| 29 | Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots . |
| 30 | It had all trees on it and looked as if it had been made for picnics . |