Example sentences of "[conj] he had been for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effort of giving Sam as much exercise as he wanted made Albert more fit than he had been for years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Paul climbed the stairs in trepidation ; had he made some mistake in the corrections , blind with pain as he had been for part of the day ? |
| 4 | This shows that Anselm was quite as ready to face exile for the primacy as he had been for obedience to the pope . |
| 5 | To be sure , one could sympathize with the sentiments of some of those penitents who refused themselves pleasures because the Emperor , saviour of mankind , could experience no pleasure whatever , locked as he had been for millennia in his prosthetic throne … |
| 6 | Because the tentacled exter was a living legend — of crime — as he had been for longer than I 'd been alive . |
| 7 | Here , as he had been for much of the past week , Thomas was contentedly playing . |