Example sentences of "had been [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 2 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 3 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 4 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 5 | The Orynthia had been away for eight months ; and only one member of the returning crew , we may not be surprised to hear , decided to risk a voyage in her again — George Groves , the boy apprentice . |
| 6 | To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days . |
| 7 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 8 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 9 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 10 | The idea of reproducing the unique taste , character and creamy head of Draught Guinness for the take-home market had been around for many years . |
| 11 | A woman of 40 came with digestive disturbance which had been around for twenty years and which had been ameliorated but not cured by previous homœopathic treatment . |
| 12 | Fiona & Paul had been together for six years before deciding to tie the knot . |
| 13 | They had been together for six months but fell out when he told her he wanted to see more of his friends . |
| 14 | Lindsey and Pete had started talking about having a baby when she was fourteen , and did so the following year : Pete and me had been together for eleven months and loved each other more than words could say . |
| 15 | And again when they had been together for two years and he was still seeing other women : ‘ They were my protection against these feelings I had for her , ’ he said . |
| 16 | Sinead had a hard time at school because she was a newcomer in a class which had been together for two years , and some of her fellow pupils knew her recent history . |
| 17 | He went home with a couple who had been together for twelve years , not because he wanted to know what it would be like to be made love to by two men at once , but rather to see how these particular two men lived as a couple ; specifically , what they did together in the morning before going to work . |
| 18 | She knew intuitively Babylon had been only for one night . |
| 19 | Nicaragua was an American obsession and a dream , a proving-ground for ideology , and had been so for more than a century . |
| 20 | I had been out for many hours that day and had covered many miles of jungle with unflagging caution , but without one moment , s unease , and then , on cresting the ridge , and coming in sight of the rocks , I knew they held danger for me , and this knowledge was confirmed a few minutes later by the kakar 's warning call to the jungle folk , and by my finding the man-eater 's pug marks superimposed on my footprints . |
| 21 | Tommy and Iain had been out for fifteen minutes . |
| 22 | She had been out for three hours in the same seas , searching the rocky coastline off St Abbs Head . |
| 23 | In spite of her unwillingness to join the outing , and the remote mood she had been in for most of the day , in the last few minutes she had begun to feel herself a real person . |
| 24 | Only when Guy had been still for several minutes did she cross to the bench and set the pail down . |
| 25 | It was considered inhumane to move out the large number of ‘ old long-stay ’ residents who had been there for many years . |
| 26 | These lines had been there for many years when Ernest Jarvis bought the house in the twenties , the Metropolitan Railway having been extended from Swiss Cottage to West Hampstead in 1879 . |
| 27 | These boys were undertrial prisoners ; many had been there for eight months and at least one had been there for two years . |
| 28 | ‘ He had been there for two nights , sinking deeper and deeper , ’ but the troops , obsessed by their own suffering , passed by without so much as casting a glance at the wretched beast . |
| 29 | Thirty-six of these families ( 44 per cent ) had lived in Wigston for at least a century and fifteen or sixteen ( 20 per cent ) had been there for 200 years or more . |
| 30 | Then at the hotel , he was recognized and before we had been there for five minutes Radio Gibraltar was down to interview him . |