Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] for [det] [noun] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Likewise the middle-aged mother may also have had aspirations which had for many years been put aside until her parenting responsibilities were at an end . |
| 2 | Similar assumptions were made by those authorities , like the London County Council , which had for some years been committed to the development of comprehension . |
| 3 | They came to the bank of the stream which had for some time been running unseen beside them . |
| 4 | This agreement ( which gave formal recognition to what had for several decades been becoming established practice ) brings out well the complexities and ambiguities inherent in much of the administrative structure of old-regime Europe . |
| 5 | What remained for most villagers was : ‘ The Hobnail Express ’ , as Sam Friend put it , ‘ Shanks 's pony : stay home or walk twelve miles to Ipswich and perhaps spend the night on Mother Greenfield 's pillow on the way back . ’ |