Example sentences of "had been [verb] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it had been fixed for days in its usual place and she was sure they would make for that . |
| 2 | He scored another victory recently when the Labour Party abolished the unions ' block vote in the leadership elections , something he had been advocating for ages . |
| 3 | In April 22 traders were charged with illegal trading , and the Justice Department announced on Aug. 2 that a total of 46 traders had been indicted for futures fraud . |
| 4 | Right at the end a glass pavilion had been built for concerts and parties , and Gran said people had come from as far away as Lancaster . |
| 5 | The year Lydia had bought her cottage a young person had died and Lydia had been lost for words , as people are in the face of tragedy . |
| 6 | The sense of being part of a general flux had been lost for years . |
| 7 | Long 's health had been deteriorating for years , but he had kept open his channels of communication ; like Law his influence was based on years of devotion to the interests of the party , and like Law 's that influence had been used to argue the case for coalition . |
| 8 | He spoke of the close links what had been forged through trade with Spain and Portugal , whose wines had been exchanged for skins , wool and fish . |
| 9 | It would appear that either the values had been substituted by the supplier ( without warning ) or the capacitors had been mistaken for components having an identical capacitance value but with a much reduced voltage rating . |
| 10 | He was gathering data for a book about world metro systems , a task on which he had been engaged for years . |
| 11 | In R. v. Jordan ( 1967 ) Jordan , who had been sentenced for offences under the Race Relations Act 1965 , applied for a writ of habeas corpus claiming that he had been convicted under an invalid law . |
| 12 | His close associate Klaus Barbie had been sentenced for crimes against humanity in 1987 [ see p. 35417 ] and had died in prison in 1991 [ see p. 38459 ] . |
| 13 | We had been looking for tasks that were : |
| 14 | The maypole committee , of which Amos was president , had been looking for ways of raising funds for the May weekend and old folks ' treat ( of which more later ) , the most important weekend in the lives of the villagers . |
| 15 | By searching for flashes repeating at exactly the same rate as the radio pulses , they were able to investigate much fainter pulsations than if they had been looking for pulses occurring at an unknown rate . |
| 16 | Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots . |
| 17 | They first told police they had been hunting for foxes . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , it noted , in Germany 44 per cent of asylum applications came from eastern Europe in 1989 , while in Austria visa requirements had been imposed for Bulgarians , Poles and Romanians during 1990 [ see pp. 37969 ; 38464 ] . |
| 19 | She woke early on the morning of July 29 , 1981 which is not surprising as her room overlooked the Mall where the singing , chattering crowds had been gathering for days . |
| 20 | This reply , however , turned out to be incorrect , as teachers had been asked for pen-portraits of the children for use at the Panel Hearings , and the Acting Director of Education Mike Drever had supported the request . |
| 21 | Another 60,000 had been punished for misdeeds but retained their party membership , while a further 120,000 were still under investigation . |
| 22 | Prayer Services at the Chaplaincy had been arranged for Mondays , Tuesdays and Thursdays . |
| 23 | She had been intending for days to make a start on clearing out the cloakroom ; now was the moment — she would make a preliminary survey , set aside what should be kept , see if there was anything good enough for Oxfam . |
| 24 | The ancient Egyptians had been trying for centuries to prevent the export of their sacred felines . |
| 25 | Sylvia had been trying for years to overcome her claustrophobia , but with little or no success . |
| 26 | My head was n't really in the right state for assimilating all this stuff , but as far as I could gather , Uncle Rory had been trying for years to come up with something Creative ( his capital , his italics ) . |
| 27 | MIT members were shown , in detail , the market which they had been trying for years to service . |
| 28 | Treatment had been given for periods ranging from two weeks to over 10 years . |
| 29 | After two months , a settlement of 17 per cent was agreed , but the green light had been given for others to follow on . |
| 30 | When the aircraft took off , at last , with a mere 18 missiles , no clearance had been given for overflights between Tel Aviv and Tehran . |