Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family . |
| 2 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 3 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 4 | I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government . |
| 5 | And then maybe after it 'd been cut for two days , you were sent out to turn the swathes , up all you went along and you turned them and turned them . |
| 6 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 7 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 8 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 9 | She 'd been divorced for 12 years . |
| 10 | Mr Probyn is being questioned about the death of his wife , Tanya , who was 28 , and who 'd been missing for six days before her body was found in her car in the River Severn . |
| 11 | She 'd been missing for 24 hours , her disappearance reported by her boyfriend , himself arrested and questioned by police , but then released . |
| 12 | His pelvis fractured and back broken , he 'd been hospitalized for eighteen months , was undergoing final therapy and still a lieutenant in the Finnish Air Force when , on June 25 , 1941 , Finland joined forces with Nazi Germany and declared war on Russia . |
| 13 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 14 | He 'd been held for eleven days . |
| 15 | ‘ He 'd been held for four months . |
| 16 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 18 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 19 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 20 | Almost without exception we 'd been knocked for six . |
| 21 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
| 22 | The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving . |
| 23 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 24 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 25 | However , Ryzhkov on July 12 told the congress that production had been halted for 24 hours at 230 of the country 's 655 coalmines , with shorter stoppages occurring at many others . |
| 26 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 27 | She had been paralysed for thirty years . |
| 28 | At the Police Federation meeting held at the Marton Hotel , Middlesbrough , it was revealed this year 34 juveniles had been bailed for 108 offences in Hartlepool . |
| 29 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 30 | On Assembly Sunday , the one just after Christian Aid Week , the visiting preacher , Rev. Stewart Matthew , told us that the day before , under the dripping trees of Holyrood , he had met a young man who had told him with pride and joy that over £13,000 had been raised for Christian Aid at his church . |