Example sentences of "he [vb past] been for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here , as he had been for much of the past week , Thomas was contentedly playing . |
| 2 | He had been for many years an Examiner with the Joint Matriculation Board , and latterly Chief Examiner for the Cambridge Board . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | His vocal chords abruptly haemorrhaged ; CBS TV dropped him , as did his agent MCA , and Columbia Records with whom he had been for ten years . |
| 5 | Because the tentacled exter was a living legend — of crime — as he had been for longer than I 'd been alive . |