Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [vb past] [be] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in his experience difficult for most people to prove conclusively exactly where they had been for any forty-eight-hour period , members of the Metropolitan police force always excepted , and this was going to make his life very difficult . |
| 2 | Such an attitude required fresh springs of energy , and the effect — I was delighted to sense it as I woke each day — was to make me more bouncy and mettlesome than I had been for weeks . |
| 3 | However , the London season was almost upon them and she was more cheerful than she 'd been for weeks . |
| 4 | She left a little while later , happier than she had been for a long time . |
| 5 | Where was that bungalow that you said was for sale then ? |
| 6 | Father and son exchanged looks , in better temper with each other than they 'd been for years . |
| 7 | They were both drunker than they 'd been for years . |
| 8 | But for Nietzsche " art as a whole " and " the Hellenic sphere " were simply not separable , any more than they had been for Winckelmann . |
| 9 | The 1480s show an average comparable with the 1430s , although this figure is probably depressed by the bad years of 1482 and 1483 in the latter year prices were higher than they had been for a century , and wages did not rise proportionately . |
| 10 | During my blue period my life also seemed to become a lot more structured than it had been for a while . |
| 11 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 12 | The sky was clearer than it had been for a week , and massive , but hardly elegant , Storskarfjell stood out like a white tent . |
| 13 | Morale on the shop floor was higher than it had been for a long year and an unhealthy atmosphere of optimism and hope pervaded the plant . |
| 14 | If possible , life was harder even for these ragged redskins than it had been for their forefathers after the war with Rope Thrower , when their livelihood had been deliberately burned away from them . |
| 15 | Police reports suggested that the countryside was more quiescent than it had been for generations . |
| 16 | Indeed , it was better than it had been for months . |
| 17 | Her father 's order book was better filled than it had been for years , her mother 's health seemed good , Eileen was happy in her work as a pools clerk , and Tony and Helen were happily planning their wedding . |
| 18 | Still , she kept the place tidier than it had been for months and she did n't mistreat Springsteen , or if she did he did n't complain about it . |
| 19 | ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time . |
| 20 | The effort of giving Sam as much exercise as he wanted made Albert more fit than he had been for years . |
| 21 | " I feel worn out , much more than I would if I 'd been for miles on the moor . |
| 22 | Cos they 'd been for a meal on the way as well ! |
| 23 | Treasurer Keating had used high interest rates as his main weapon in the struggle to reduce the country 's current account deficit , but they had been for blamed for contributing to the loss of business confidence . |
| 24 | Mr Strachan 's acquaintance with the Library did not begin with his appointment as Chairman , since he had been for many years , as a historian and biographer , a reader in the Library 's Reading Rooms . |
| 25 | One afternoon after they had been for a swim together , Sycorax said , as Ariel took her on her back again , grunting for the old woman had grown so much heavier , it seemed , since her immersion , ‘ You are having the red man 's child . ’ |
| 26 | The battered red car arrived at 7pm , Maria Yackle was dressed as she had been for her previous visit , but because it was rather cold , wore a jacket made of synthetic fur as well . |
| 27 | They were unfortunate in that batting conditions for them were not as favourable as they had been for the West Indians . |
| 28 | Ipswich were as lethargic at the start of the second half as they had been for the majority of the first and on the hour , in an attempt to liven them up , Lyall brought off Milton and Goddard to introduce Palmer and Johnson . |
| 29 | They were located above the centre of the road instead of being drawn out to one side , as they had been for the trams . |
| 30 | But the South African Rugby Board and the South African Rugby Union continued to get bogged down , as they had been for the last three years , even with the help of intermediaries of the stature of Nelson Mandela , in their attempts to reach accord and form one , united body for rugby football in their country . |