Example sentences of "and [noun] [verb] be [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Doctor gives the conventional lore of his day , a blend of ethics and medicine : we see that we are also those ‘ deaf pillows ’ , that the masking and unmasking has been all for our sake . |
| 2 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 3 | The little that she 'd been able to piece together was that Pamela was a barrister , that the house did , as Lucy had suspected , belong to her , and that she and Josie had been together for at least five years and probably longer . |
| 4 | She and Lewis had been out for a meal the night before . |
| 5 | Tommy and Iain had been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 6 | Brooke Alexander , of course , and Josh Baer , Ronald Feldman , Pat Hearn and Feature have been there for some time . |
| 7 | 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 . |