Example sentences of "he had been [adj] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt light-headed , as if he had been awake for days on end . |
| 2 | Nicos Sampson , leader of the short-lived right-wing regime of 1974 , was conditionally released from imprisonment in Cyprus on April 28 ; he had been due for release in March 1994 [ see also p. 38450 ] . |
| 3 | Whilst with Tangye Ltd. he had been responsible for machinery used by the Saltburn , North Yorkshire cliff railway . |
| 4 | He had been old for years and grown so fat in the stomach that he puffed when he stooped . |
| 5 | Davide sighed ; with Tommaso Talvi he had been hungry for experience , but now , he wondered what had impelled him then to want so much , everything , travel , influence , money , work , before he had ever touched a woman ; when now he sang arias of extreme emotion , when he grieved and sobbed his passion in La Forza and Boccanegra and La Traviata , he thought of young men in the future bursting their hearts for his daughters . |
| 6 | He had been ready for Tunney . |
| 7 | The preacher was describing with enthusiasm how he had been wicked for years and how a certain parson had pointed it out to him : this had gradually turned him from wickedness . |
| 8 | He had been concerned for Kafy ; more than he would have thought , for someone whose interest in him stretched no further than his wallet . |