Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [be] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 2 | After the car had been there for some years the defendant wished to convert the yard into a garage but was unable to communicate with the plaintiff . |
| 3 | The plan had been originally for Rohan to marry Antoinette , but because she was the Baronne 's niece , not Gaston 's , the inheritance would have been penalised financially by the government . |
| 4 | Second , it was based in and expressed a paradox : that the educational reform had been primarily for men ; women were still relatively excluded . |
| 5 | Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month . |
| 6 | The ‘ Great Debate ’ about education had been underway for some time and though it was clear that the curriculum was in need of change , it was less clear how much change should take place at Hinde House , bearing in mind the need for teachers to have ownership of curriculum delivery if higher standards and a wide range of learning experiences were to permeate the whole curriculum rather than making a series of peripheral and ephemeral alterations to an already redundant approach . |
| 7 | In any case , the phobia had been around for so long that one extra week would not really make any difference . |
| 8 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 9 | Gabrielle was granted a decree nisi in a five-minute hearing at the Divorce Court in London , on the grounds that the couple had been apart for more than two years . |
| 10 | The idea of reproducing the unique taste , character and creamy head of Draught Guinness for the take-home market had been around for many years . |
| 11 | If the groom had been there for over two years , he must have had plenty of opportunity for revenge on Tamar , if that had been his motive . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He and my mother had been together for at least ten years when I was born , and we think now that I was her hostage to fortune , the factor that might persuade him to get a divorce and marry her . |
| 14 | A Whalby and his son had been there for as long as anyone could remember and Dadda used sometimes to boast on his good days that Alfred Osborn Tace had himself been a customer and that Whalbys had re-covered the seats of the Hepplewhite chairs at Chesney Hall . |