Example sentences of "[vb past] been [prep] [adj] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 2 | She 'd been in commercial radio for eleven months following nearly three years on a regional newspaper ; she reckoned to stick around this particular station for another two years at the most . |
| 3 | Attempts by " several gentlemen " to end these customs had been of little avail for a complaint of a very similar kind was still being made a century later . |
| 4 | PC James Connolly , 37 , had been on long-term sick-leave for several months with depression and police are worried for his safety . |
| 5 | In Northern Ireland Constable Louis Robinson , an off-duty member of the Royal Ulster Constabulary who had been on sick leave for three years , was kidnapped from a minibus at an IRA roadblock near the border at Killeen , South Armagh , on Sept. 15 . |
| 6 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 7 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
| 8 | Osric , king of Northumbria ( 718–29 ) ( HE V , 23 ) , no details of whose reign are known , could have been a son of Ealhfrith or of Aldfrith , and either way his accession will have represented a restoration of Oswiu 's family to royal power ( even if , in the former case , of a branch which had been in political eclipse for half a century ) , but his successor Ceolwulf ( 729–37 ) was a brother of Coenred ( HE V , 23 ) and Ceolwulf 's successor , Eadberht ( 737–58 ) , son of Eata , son of Leodwald , was Ceolwulf 's first cousin . |
| 9 | When you had been in that world for a while you knew the way things would go . |
| 10 | By then , L had been in foster care for about a month . |
| 11 | The Soren Larsen , which starred in the TV series the Onedin Line had been in dry dock for seven months . |
| 12 | Throughout the summer Solchaga had been in fruitless negotiations for a " pact of progress " between the government and the two main unions — the socialist General Workers ' Union ( UGT ) and the communist Workers ' Commissions ( CCOO ) . |
| 13 | Elliott began to take things easy and Reveille Boy , who had been in hot pursuit for some time , reduced the gap . |
| 14 | This question is considered for people who had been in such homes for a year or more . |
| 15 | As with Northern Tyneside as a whole , the growth in employment had been in part-time employment for women with a significant growth in part-time employment for men . |
| 16 | Staff of institutions responded about 18 per cent of those who had been in residential homes for less than a year , 47 per cent of those in one for longer . |
| 17 | In the early stages many of the children had been in residential care for periods of years , had little or no contact with members of the natural family and had lost all serious hope of returning there . |
| 18 | Often , all education was conducted by the internees themselves — English lessons being given by people who had been in this country for a number of years . |
| 19 | The Institution , however , did not feel able to recommend such a change after the word ‘ diesel ’ had been in universal use for so long . |