Example sentences of "had [be] [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 3 | The report lists ‘ many faults ’ inherent in the way the railway had been run for several years . |
| 4 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 5 | It had been recognised for some time that only through rationalisation into larger productive and distributive units could the movement overcome the damaging rivalries among societies in the same neighbourhood , and through economies of scale promote further growth . |
| 6 | Why of course : the Essoldo had been built for these middle class folk in the 1930s — they were Patrons ! |
| 7 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains running at less flexible times . |
| 8 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains at less flexible times . |
| 9 | Another suggestion was that an entire class of LMS express locomotives had been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 10 | A solution has now been offered and , if we accept it , we were right : the ladies had truthfully reported what they had seen , but in fact it was a sort of fancy-dress fête champêtre organized by Robert de Montesquiou : as no official permission had been granted for this , the authorities denied all knowledge of it . |
| 11 | The exception was Dawn Allenby , a woman in her thirties who had been engaged for this first production only and who , two days into rehearsal , had fallen heavily for Richard St Ives . |
| 12 | The most recent outstanding event in Jim 's distinguished career was the publication of his definitive catalogue of the collections of Christ Church , Oxford , on which he had been engaged for several years , coinciding with the opening of the new galleries to contain them . |
| 13 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 14 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 15 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 16 | To judge by the clutter of bottles , glasses , and over-filled ashtrays , and the brooding , weary faces , they had been debating for many hours . |
| 17 | The consultative document published in 1987 followed the principle that had been acknowledged for some time , drawing a distinction between essential items which were to remain free , and desirable but not essential items for which charges could be made , a distinction not in practice very easy to make . |
| 18 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 19 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 20 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 21 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 22 | The schedule of accommodation which forms the basic document around which the rest of the building note is developed , and which I shall illustrate , was prepared , for this particular group of patients , in precisely the same way as it had been done for some of the other sub-groups within mental illness and mental handicapped for which various supplements have been prepared to which I referred above . |
| 23 | The phone had been ringing for some time . |
| 24 | Also in the field of biogeography world maps of plant formations had been utilized for many years and had indeed been adopted as the basis for some climatic classification by attempting to fit the classification to the plant distribution . |
| 25 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
| 26 | The wood at the back of the painting was deeply scored with a dagger as if someone had been searching for some secret crevice or compartment . |
| 27 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 28 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 29 | Concern had been voiced for some time by the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) as to the restrictive practices maintained by the Stock Exchange : |
| 30 | Relations with China , which had been strained for many years since the 1962 war between the two countries , gradually improved after Rajiv Gandhi 's visit to Beijing on Dec. 19-23 , 1988 , the first to China by an Indian Prime Minister for 34 years . |