Example sentences of "had be [verb] [adv] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Looks as though it had been cut out for some reason . |
| 2 | Written application had been made in advance , and , except for four theses on loan , all had been collected together for this study either within the thesis area or in the thesis collection area of the Stack , to which access was permitted on this occasion . |
| 3 | She had assumed , when she was told that Mills ' murder had been checked thoroughly for any spying connections , that the enquiry had at least had the semblance of efficiency , if not diligence . |
| 4 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
| 5 | Following township rumours that the Mandelas had been living apart for some weeks , the Sowetan newspaper said Mrs Mandela continued to live in the mansion she had built in a better part of Soweto but Mr Mandela had moved into a well-guarded home in Johannesburg 's affluent northern suburbs . |
| 6 | But meanwhile , the hospital workers had been dug in for another kind of long war which ca n't be won the miners ' way . |
| 7 | He had been trembling violently for several hours but now no sound came from the place where he lay . |
| 8 | Both the NRC and the SPG and its equivalents had been known about for some time . |
| 9 | His tenure of the post was short : his health had been declining progressively for several months as a result of overwork , and he died 5 February 1882 at his home at 7 Cornwall Street , Edinburgh . |
| 10 | Bodie was making eyes at the girl , and had been doing so for most of the hearing . |
| 11 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |
| 12 | Suzanne Gratton , 22 , of Warwick Close , Birkenhead , was accused after it was noticed that the licence on her car had been taken out for another vehicle . |
| 13 | Toby Tobias was quickest away and Desert Orchid could find no more , but the race was far from finished , for as Mark Pitman on Toby Tobias made for the winning post Graham McCourt urged Norton 's Coin to a final effort , and as the two jockeys , whips swishing , pushed their courageous mounts up the hill the cheers from the stands which moments before had been tuning up for another Dessie triumph lapsed into a disbelieving murmur : this was not the right script at all . |
| 14 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 15 | At the time of Leathart 's survey , Taylor 's Level had been carried on for some 210 fathoms , and was then about 35 fathoms short of being below the deepening sump in the floor of Fleming 's . |
| 16 | Later my surgeon was to tell me that the cancer had been growing away for many years . |
| 17 | But Lanfranc seems not even to have noticed that the community still followed , however imperfectly , the order of monastic life which had been laid down for all English monasteries a hundred years earlier , of which two copies from the pre-Conquest library at Christ Church , Canterbury , still survive . |
| 18 | Standing at the window in the small front lounge , where a buffet had been laid out for those guests arriving late , or for people who were still hungry , she saw Feargal accompany Phena , and the man who had been her constant companion at the wedding , walk down the path . |
| 19 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |
| 20 | The experiments , however , involved drawing fibres and blowing bubbles of molten glass and one day , after the work had been going on for some months , Lockspeiser went home leaving the gas torch used for melting the glass still burning . |
| 21 | A wider political initiative , with UN armed observers escorting food and convoys , and increased financial output , was not launched until as late as August , by which time looting of food supplies had been going on for some months . |
| 22 | These claims were never universally accepted ; the destruction of the unity of Christendom by the Reformation helped to undermine the authority of the Pope to allocate territory , but it was Catholic France that first challenged Spain 's position in the West Indies and that conflict had been going on for some years when in 1559 , at the end of one round of European wars , France and Spain included in the peace treaty a clause which stated that fighting in regions west of the Azores or south of the Tropic of Cancer was not to be taken as a reason for resuming hostilities in Europe . |
| 23 | The argument had been going on for some time . |
| 24 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 25 | When questioned they admitted that this state of affairs had been going on for some time . |
| 26 | Not until she had been sitting there for several minutes did Isabel realise that no sound at all had come from her torn and bleeding lips . |
| 27 | We had been hillwalking together for several years , and by this time were well aware of the strengths and weaknesses of each other 's paces . |
| 28 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |
| 29 | One afternoon , after they had been travelling together for several days , Cleo ordered Dauntless to pull Contralto to a halt . |
| 30 | It was a warm night , and he had been studying hard for some hours . |