Example sentences of "had been [adv] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 2 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 3 | To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days . |
| 4 | The Orynthia had been away for eight months ; and only one member of the returning crew , we may not be surprised to hear , decided to risk a voyage in her again — George Groves , the boy apprentice . |
| 5 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 6 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 7 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 8 | Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot . |
| 9 | They had been together for six months but fell out when he told her he wanted to see more of his friends . |
| 10 | Lindsey and Pete had started talking about having a baby when she was fourteen , and did so the following year : Pete and me had been together for eleven months and loved each other more than words could say . |
| 11 | And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Sinead had a hard time at school because she was a newcomer in a class which had been together for two years , and some of her fellow pupils knew her recent history . |
| 13 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 14 | She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night . |
| 15 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 16 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 17 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 18 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 19 | ‘ He had been there for two nights , sinking deeper and deeper , ’ but the troops , obsessed by their own suffering , passed by without so much as casting a glance at the wretched beast . |
| 20 | Thirty-six of these families ( 44 per cent ) had lived in Wigston for at least a century and fifteen or sixteen ( 20 per cent ) had been there for 200 years or more . |
| 21 | Then at the hotel , he was recognized and before we had been there for five minutes Radio Gibraltar was down to interview him . |
| 22 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 23 | ‘ I ca n't begin to say what I think about these people who stole the plaque and the names of the servicemen which had been there for forty-eight years . ’ |
| 24 | We also have the Castle Court development , complete with massive subsidies from the British government , which was built on the backs of the Smithfield traders , some of whom had been there for fifty years and whose original conception of a shopping complex run by local people was hijacked . |
| 25 | They had been there for six months , the duration of their marriage . |
| 26 | But the man whom he promised to come back and visit had been there for twenty years , the oldest inhabitant , as the turnkey would tell newcomers ; he could play the piano and speak fluent French and Italian . |
| 27 | Detectives are working on the theory that the bags had been there for some time . |
| 28 | " Any more than I can explain why cholera should have always attacked those of our soldiers who had recently arrived in the Crimea in preference to those who had been there for some time … |
| 29 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 30 | Because then it was that she knew , with blinding clarity , what had been there for some time now . |