Example sentences of "and [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick had fallen off a ladder over a year and a half ago and had been off work for much of that time . |
| 2 | Alex , who had given me the cigarettes , was Scottish and had been at Lille for three days ; he had deserted from the Military Police in Germany , and thought that French food was nowhere as good as Glaswegian . |
| 3 | On that afternoon of Tuesday , 31 August , McQueen 's daughter served them tea ; she wore a print linen dress , and had been to Inverness for a year 's education in reading , writing , sewing , knotting , lace- and pastry-making . |
| 4 | Councillors , most of whom had strong local roots and had been in power for many years , came to believe they had a permanent mandate and readily resisted any challenge to their authority . |
| 5 | President Taya had followed up a July 29 amnesty for state security and press law offenders with a further amnesty , announced on Aug. 18 , for people who had been sentenced in their absence and had been in exile for over 15 years . |