Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [adv] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 2 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 3 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 4 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 5 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 6 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 7 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 8 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 9 | " 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 … |
| 10 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 11 | Because then it was that she knew , with blinding clarity , what had been there for some time now . |
| 12 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 13 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 14 | Keith Sutton , prosecuting on behalf of Sefton Council 's Public Protection Department , told the court there was sufficient oil in the insect to suggest it had been there for some time . |
| 15 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |