Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [adj] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had , in fact , treated her as a man might well treat a wife to whom he 'd been married for some years — a relaxed , comfortable relationship in which there was no need for any outward signs of affection . |
| 2 | He 'd been dead for several hours . |
| 3 | But she never suspecting it was , you know , when they 'd been alright for seven years you |
| 4 | It had originally been left to her by a noted amateur ornithologist and eccentric with whom she had been friendly for many years . |
| 5 | Compact disc technology had been available for some time , but the quadraphonic experiment had failed and videotape technology was in something of an impasse . |
| 6 | When we entered the local office to add yet more to my daughter 's investments , the helpful cashier advised us to switch from her existing account , requiring 90 days ’ notice of withdrawals to an instant access ‘ Prime Gold ’ account which had been available for some time , and in fact paid higher interest . |
| 7 | Small dedicated games units had been available for some time but had always had only crude multimedia capabilities . |
| 8 | He had been unwell for some time and had now gone into a state of collapse . |
| 9 | The weather had been dry for some time and , fanned by an easterly wind , the fire spread rapidly until , within three days , it had engulfed most of the city . |
| 10 | From the head 's point of view , the library had been underfunded for some time with an annual capitation of some £860 , supplemented ( not always willingly ) by a 5% levy on the capitation of each department . |
| 11 | The world of secondary schools was one from which I had been absent for eight years and it had in the mean time greatly expanded , so that the new secondary modern schools now occupied most — although not necessarily the most strategically important — territory . |
| 12 | When he returned to the Gold Coast he had been absent for 12 years : he had departed far too young to have made any mark . |
| 13 | Of the remaining 176 ( 38 per cent ) , 16 had been present for 20–45 years and two for an astonishing 50 years . |
| 14 | An example of this is the case of a lady of forty-five who attended the clinic with neuralgia which had been present for some years . |
| 15 | Disparate and haphazard as it was , one thing is certain : popular discontent with the system had been general for several years . |
| 16 | He had been best man at their wedding — a formidable pre-nuptial agreement had been necessary for that capitulation — and had carried out his duties with a mixture of incompetence , vulgarity and irreverence which , as she occasionally enjoyed telling Norman , had spoilt for her the memory of her big day . |
| 17 | When Godoy was contemplating patriotism his enemy Ferdinand , who had been intriguing for French support for some months , put all his faith in Napoleon 's endorsement of the revolution of Aranjuez . |
| 18 | She had been homesick for this city , and the years of marriage to Nahum slipped away . |
| 19 | If it had been impossible for one reason or another to use a boat on the water I would have done the best I could with a plummet and noted what I could see from the banks . |
| 20 | She had been amenorrhoeic for six months before her first attendance at this hospital . |
| 21 | The annual floods had been low for some years , and conditions in the villages were very bad . |
| 22 | Party contributions had been compulsory for all citizens prior to the RPT 's dissolution . |
| 23 | It was an argument that had been simmering for two days , and it was clear he was beginning to waver . |
| 24 | And some of the authoritarian oligarchies had been good for economic growth — as in Brazil in the 1970s , or Singapore under Lee Kuan Yew — while others , like the Greek colonels , had not . |
| 25 | His friend and doctor , Dr James Mortimer , said that Sir Charles ' heart had been weak for some time . |
| 26 | Tension along the 38th parallel had been serious for some months : General Hodge informed the joint chiefs of staff in January 1948 that both the south Korean police and north Korean border guards were engaged in sporadic attacks on one another . |
| 27 | The Upchers did not want anything elaborate , and although Repton had been famous for castellated picturesqueness , here was the perfect chance to create simple neo-classicism , which was all he secretly cared for and the conventional essence of those first twenty years of the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | In London , just before the war , almost no one had heard of Paul Klee , although in Germany he had been famous for some years . |
| 29 | She had been listless for some time and the woman could only hope that moving her right away from the influence of the people she went around with into these beautiful surroundings might bring her back to herself . |
| 30 | Miguel 's voice was suddenly very warm , and Shelley remembered that he and his beautiful young assistant had been close for some time . |