Example sentences of "had been [adj] for [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it was , this first ever trip on a narrow boat looked like being her last , and she had been asleep for most of it . |
| 2 | Comment on the dollar had been sombre for much of the year in the train of developments the previous autumn . |
| 3 | MGM had been responsible for some of the worst quota quickie outrages , and its new willingness to finance British-based production was the result of legislative changes which brought American companies deeper into British film production . |
| 4 | They accepted the claims without question and assumed , equally without question , that the detained paramilitary men from the Rathcoole district had been responsible for both of the specified shooting atrocities . |
| 5 | And if in this new life he was to be alone … well , he had been alone for most of his life . |
| 6 | It nevertheless seems clear that the brand of Whiggery we associate with the Walpolean ascendancy of the 1720s and 1730s was very different from that which had been predominant for much of the later-Stuart period . |