Example sentences of "had been [adv] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if she came and found Tina up she could pretend to herself that Tina had been up for hours , and was a normal person and a proper mother . |
| 2 | He had been up for hours , out on the farm , before eating . |
| 3 | They were in the middle of a meeting and he was irritated that Stevens ' mind — often his entire presence — had been elsewhere for weeks . |
| 4 | If no one had been here for years , why did she fancy she could smell cigarette smoke ? |
| 5 | Second , it was based in and expressed a paradox : that the educational reform had been primarily for men ; women were still relatively excluded . |
| 6 | He noticed that when local church leaders had been away for Bible School training , they ceased to tell stories in their preaching . |
| 7 | After his visits to London his wife was waiting to welcome him as if he had been away for weeks , and she was always dutiful in bed . |
| 8 | Nevertheless they smiled and waved at him as he came in and Deuce , at the tape recorder , came over , arms open , as if he had been away for weeks . |
| 9 | When they first moved far enough into the courtyard to glimpse Gabriel sitting on his cloud , the morning sunshine dazzled eyes that had been indoors for days on end . |
| 10 | And I saw a dear little shed that someone had made into a craft shop , and the woman said no one had been in for ages , and was n't she pleased to see me … ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It had been there for years — I played there myself as a child — but it was situated in the worst possible place . |
| 12 | Her new life at Usher started appropriately on January 1st One day in the office , and she understood the situation better than some of the staff who had been there for years . |
| 13 | I 'd been sexually abused and all of a sudden the poison that had been there for years started boiling to the surface . |
| 14 | There was no sign that anyone had been there for months . |
| 15 | She had n't known Mark very well , but she had been there for Robyn when he had died , seen the agony that her friend had gone through . |
| 16 | Diamonds and rare jewels were strewn across the floor as if they had been there for millennia . |
| 17 | Some refugees in the embassy gardens said they had been there for days , but had not boarded the sealed refugee trains travelling through East Germany to Bavaria . |
| 18 | The plan had been originally for Rohan to marry Antoinette , but because she was the Baronne 's niece , not Gaston 's , the inheritance would have been penalised financially by the government . |