Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family . |
| 2 | And then maybe after it 'd been cut for two days , you were sent out to turn the swathes , up all you went along and you turned them and turned them . |
| 3 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 4 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 5 | She 'd been divorced for 12 years . |
| 6 | Mr Probyn is being questioned about the death of his wife , Tanya , who was 28 , and who 'd been missing for six days before her body was found in her car in the River Severn . |
| 7 | She 'd been missing for 24 hours , her disappearance reported by her boyfriend , himself arrested and questioned by police , but then released . |
| 8 | His pelvis fractured and back broken , he 'd been hospitalized for eighteen months , was undergoing final therapy and still a lieutenant in the Finnish Air Force when , on June 25 , 1941 , Finland joined forces with Nazi Germany and declared war on Russia . |
| 9 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 10 | He 'd been held for eleven days . |
| 11 | ‘ He 'd been held for four months . |
| 12 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 13 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 14 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 15 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 16 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
| 17 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 18 | Sometimes brick tracery was used , sometimes the small quantity of stone needed was found for important buildings . |
| 19 | In fact , practically all I did was to go for solitary walks or pretend to read Virgil or Sophocles , whose two dead languages were now as meaningless to me as mental arithmetic , and as incapable of claiming my concentration . |
| 20 | The first show we ever did was opening for Living Colour , and we 've just done a mini-tour with Adrian Belew 's band . |
| 21 | However , Ryzhkov on July 12 told the congress that production had been halted for 24 hours at 230 of the country 's 655 coalmines , with shorter stoppages occurring at many others . |
| 22 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 23 | She had been paralysed for thirty years . |
| 24 | At the Police Federation meeting held at the Marton Hotel , Middlesbrough , it was revealed this year 34 juveniles had been bailed for 108 offences in Hartlepool . |
| 25 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 26 | On Assembly Sunday , the one just after Christian Aid Week , the visiting preacher , Rev. Stewart Matthew , told us that the day before , under the dripping trees of Holyrood , he had met a young man who had told him with pride and joy that over £13,000 had been raised for Christian Aid at his church . |
| 27 | A new head of History had been appointed for next term to release the pastoral coordinator from a ‘ caretaker ’ role as head of History , a scale 3 second in department for English had been appointed by promoting an existing member of the department and an early retirement application had been granted . |
| 28 | The report lists ‘ many faults ’ inherent in the way the railway had been run for several years . |
| 29 | She and Caan had been separated for three years . |
| 30 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |