Example sentences of "had been [verb] [prep] [adj] year " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She had been paralysed for thirty years . |
| 3 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 4 | Jackie Stewart also announced that the record sum of £200,000 had been raised by this year 's Jackie Stewart Celebrity Challenge . |
| 5 | The report lists ‘ many faults ’ inherent in the way the railway had been run for several years . |
| 6 | She and Caan had been separated for three years . |
| 7 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |
| 8 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains running at less flexible times . |
| 9 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains at less flexible times . |
| 10 | By now he was of an age to make his own decisions , the first of which was to marry the English girl to whom he had been engaged for two years . |
| 11 | The most recent outstanding event in Jim 's distinguished career was the publication of his definitive catalogue of the collections of Christ Church , Oxford , on which he had been engaged for several years , coinciding with the opening of the new galleries to contain them . |
| 12 | Shortly after liberation in 1945 , he married Peggy Whitall , to whom he had been engaged for seven years . |
| 13 | Eve had n't known that Birdie Mac who ran the sweet shop had a man from Ballylee who had been calling for fifteen years , but she would n't leave her old mother and the man from Ballylee would n't come to Knockglen . |
| 14 | By the time he and Norman strode out to try to win the 1986 British Open , Bender had been caddying for eighteen years , having picked up his first serious bag when he was 18 years old . |
| 15 | Debray , later a minister in France 's socialist President Mitterrand 's Government , had spent time with Guevara in the jungle , and had been sentenced to thirty years by the Bolivians . |
| 16 | On Oct. 7 the Iranian government released Jon Pattis , 54 , an engineer who had been sentenced to 10 years on spying charges in 1987 . |
| 17 | Huang had been sentenced to 10 years in prison in 1990 after being found guilty of raising funds to promote Taiwanese independence [ see p. 37917 ] . |
| 18 | In April 1988 Abbas Ali Hamadei had been sentenced to 13 years imprisonment in Germany for complicity in the kidnapping of two German citizens in Beirut in 1987 [ see p. 36046 ] . |
| 19 | Amaoui had been sentenced to two years ' imprisonment for defamation of the government in an interview published in El País on March 11 in which he had described members of the government as thieves [ see also p. 38888 ] . |
| 20 | The US Army on Dec. 4 revealed that a US soldier serving in Germany had been sentenced to 34 years in prison after being convicted of spying for Iraq and Jordan during the Gulf War . |
| 21 | Dorje had been sentenced to three years of hard labour , but according to the Chinese Government , he ‘ showed signs of reform ’ and ‘ was granted early release ’ . |
| 22 | The appellant was Michael Thomas Bromell who had been convicted on 16 October 1987 at Warwick Crown Court of unlawful wounding and had been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment . |
| 23 | Earlier in August another UK national had been sentenced to seven years ' imprisonment on similar charges , in that case of entering from Kuwait [ see p. 39069 ] . |
| 24 | His brother , Gene Gotti , had been sentenced to 50 years ' imprisonment on July 7 , 1989 , after being found guilty of running a multimillion-dollar drugs ring . |
| 25 | He had been sentenced to 25 years ' imprisonment in March 1961 . |
| 26 | The prisoner who died in May [ ibid. ] was José Manuel Sevillano Martín , who had been sentenced to 24 years ' imprisonment in 1986 on a number of charges including robbery with menaces , membership of an illegal armed group and illegal possession of arms . |
| 27 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 28 | The group had been meeting for two years , and it was mainly a consciousness-raising group , although , with only about twenty groups in London as a whole , some of them , the ‘ housewives ’ , the women who worked part-time were also able to help run the voluntary rota in the central London office , the Women 's Liberation Workshop . |
| 29 | Also in the field of biogeography world maps of plant formations had been utilized for many years and had indeed been adopted as the basis for some climatic classification by attempting to fit the classification to the plant distribution . |
| 30 | Relations with China , which had been strained for many years since the 1962 war between the two countries , gradually improved after Rajiv Gandhi 's visit to Beijing on Dec. 19-23 , 1988 , the first to China by an Indian Prime Minister for 34 years . |