Example sentences of "had been [adj] for [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With this scene of confusion before his eyes it seems unlikely that he would have contemplated using any wheeled transport , even supposing that it had been available for his use at the time . |
| 2 | When , as a child , he had been desperate for her love , and had offered his own , she had always turned away from him . |
| 3 | Dunlop parish had been long-famed for its dairy produce . |
| 4 | Quite a few of his country clients had been late for their appointments , or had failed to turn up at all , and the story was always the same : British troops had boarded the train as passengers so the driver or the fireman or the guard or ticket-collector — sometimes all four — refused to work and the train never moved . |
| 5 | Sara had been glad for her great-aunt , daughter of a famous Edwardian horse-breeder , and in her day a breeder herself , to have this nostalgic reminder of the past . |
| 6 | She knew it had been hard for her Mother when her Father had shipped her off to the United States to escape the war . |
| 7 | It was becoming difficult to remember how it had looked fifteen months ago , before Amy and Timmy had entered his life ; the homemade shelves of orange boxes ranged against the wall which had held his books , the two mugs , two plates and one soup bowl , which had been adequate for his needs , neatly stacked in the cupboard , the excessive cleanliness of the small kitchen and lavatory , his bed smooth under the coverlet of knitted woollen squares , the single hanging cupboard which had been sufficient for his meagre wardrobe , his other possessions boxed and tidily stowed in the chest under the seat . |
| 8 | The shock of finding out about her child had been responsible for her husband 's fatal apoplexy , and she would feel guilty for the rest of her life . |
| 9 | Matisse had been responsible for its decoration . |
| 10 | There was a clear feeling on the part of some Councillors that , since the School was no longer under their sole control and since they now had their own Technical School to worry about ( they had been responsible for its organization and financing from March 1892 ) , they need no longer be too concerned about the Grammar School . |