Example sentences of "he had been [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | In London , just before the war , almost no one had heard of Paul Klee , although in Germany he had been famous for some years . |
| 2 | He had been dry for the past twenty years . |
| 3 | At his death he had been married for at least nine years to a wife called Margaret . |
| 4 | He had been unwell for some time and had now gone into a state of collapse . |
| 5 | He had been asleep for less than half an hour . |
| 6 | He had been asleep for some time , physically exhausted after his ordeal , but now he tossed and turned , held fast in the grip of some awful nightmare . |
| 7 | When he returned to the Gold Coast he had been absent for 12 years : he had departed far too young to have made any mark . |
| 8 | He felt light-headed , as if he had been awake for days on end . |
| 9 | When , as a child , he had been desperate for her love , and had offered his own , she had always turned away from him . |
| 10 | Meanwhile Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke last night received an apology from ITN for claiming that he had been late for yesterday 's wreath-laying ceremony at the Cenotaph . |
| 11 | Nicos Sampson , leader of the short-lived right-wing regime of 1974 , was conditionally released from imprisonment in Cyprus on April 28 ; he had been due for release in March 1994 [ see also p. 38450 ] . |
| 12 | He had been responsible for a number of important buildings which , as well as the Public Record Office , included part of the Ordnance Office ( 1850–1 ) , the Museum of Economic Geology in Piccadilly ( 1847–8 ) and the western portion of Somerset House ( 1851–6 ) . |
| 13 | They next claimed that he had been responsible for a murder in Belfast which had received considerable publicity . |
| 14 | An expert on explosives he had been responsible for the design and building of this 4½ tons charge . |
| 15 | His confession — that he had been responsible for poisoning Mozart — has intrigued historians and musicians ever since , but it seems to be quite unfounded . |
| 16 | Although the assassination of Buckingham could have provided a fresh start , on the assumption that he had been responsible for the King 's policies , there was no redress of grievances . |
| 17 | The Field Marshal was to be tried on two counts : the first , that he had been responsible for the killing of 335 Italians in the Ardeatine Caves outside Rome and the second that he had incited his troops to act with unnecessary force against the partisans . |
| 18 | And after as many tender words as he could think of , to try and lighten the load , to try and make it seem less of a confession , even to try and compensate for the shared and shaming confidence , he told Fergus that he had been responsible for the fire that had burned down the barn near Port Ann , fifteen years earlier . |
| 19 | Whilst with Tangye Ltd. he had been responsible for machinery used by the Saltburn , North Yorkshire cliff railway . |
| 20 | If he was indeed the highwayman who had terrorised the area for the past year he had been responsible for the murders of a number of men and women already . |
| 21 | He remained in detention during the rebellion but stated in a letter published in the press that he had been responsible for it , a claim which was interpreted more as a dramatic personal gesture than a statement of fact ; earlier reports stated that the rebellion had been such a surprise to him that he had requested a pistol in order to shoot himself . |
| 22 | He had been responsible for looking after party affairs in Uttar Pradesh and in Maharashtra , where the Congress ( I ) government of Sharad Pawar was facing demands from four senior ministers that he be removed . |
| 23 | As Treasurer he had been responsible for the most sweeping economic reforms ever undertaken in Australia , including floating the dollar and deregulating the financial system . |
| 24 | He had been ill for a short time and when uremic poisoning developed , he was moved to a private ward in the Moose Jaw General Hospital . |
| 25 | Even her father 's death a month ago had n't really affected her , because he had been ill for such a long time that nobody could be sorry that the end had come . |
| 26 | Stable jockey Chris Grant said : ‘ He had been ill for a long while , but carried on because his horses were his life . ’ |
| 27 | He had been ill for many months and his five-year term would not have been renewed at the National People 's Congress which starts on Monday . |
| 28 | He had been ill for some time . |
| 29 | He had been ill for some time , and passed away peacefully on 12 April . |
| 30 | And if in this new life he was to be alone … well , he had been alone for most of his life . |