Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] be [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Val Pinder who has been away for some months due to illness achieves a fantastic level of sales and came in fourth . |
| 2 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 3 | There we dropped off one hunter and his labrador , and collected two others who had been there for several days , totally alone with their guns , their butane gas stove , the deer and the eternal forests surrounding them . |
| 4 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |
| 5 | No war correspondent , however , could have described the gloom that pervaded the air , or the look of hopelessness ingrained on the faces of anyone who had been there for more than a few days . |