Example sentences of "been [noun] [unc] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been Patrick 's housekeeper for fourteen years , through his brief and disastrous marriage , through his long and complicated liaison with a woman who had left a year ago , telling Ella that there was no point in waiting any longer for Patrick to marry her . |
| 2 | Yes , it had been Edwin 's turn for fire watching in Farringdon Street , but his wife was having a baby so Ivor Gundry , one of our best scholars , from Bridport in Dorset , had volunteered to take his place . |
| 3 | Kate 's day out had always been Nicandra 's day for experiments made to please , and sometimes to displease , Andrew . |
| 4 | Sarah Thomas had been Philpott 's secretary for the last five years . |
| 5 | Colin Johnson is driving the van and has been Bella 's lover for 15 years . |
| 6 | John d'Ancona , who has been OSO 's director-general for 12 years , doubts if it will go as far as the creation of a series of OSO clones operating under the DTI umbrella to deal with specific industrial sectors . |
| 7 | Kilfedder had been Paisley 's choice for Speaker of the Assembly . |
| 8 | According to some reports Barak , who had been Shomron 's deputy for four years , had planned and commanded those carrying out the assassination of Abu Jihad , the PLO " number two " , in Tunis in 1988 [ see p. 36436 ] . |
| 9 | By the time the news reached Lyons , Anselm would have been Hugh 's guest for about six months , and the letter which he wrote to the new pope shows a remarkable advance on the letter he had written to Urban II two years earlier . |
| 10 | McIllvanney must have been Billingsley 's source for the policeman 's information about my boat and my plans to repair her . |
| 11 | The Duchess of York has been Macintyre 's patron for 3 years ; latterly , some of her most turbulent times . |
| 12 | And whilst it was never , it could never have been God 's will for Naomi to backslide with Elimelech her husband , and to go into Moab out of the mess that they make of their life , out of the mistakes that they , they perpetrate again and again , God somehow in his graciousness , in his mercy brings goodness from it ! |
| 13 | And , as we saw in the previous chapter , he gave science a religious sanction , in that it promised the restoration of a dominion over nature that had been God 's intention for humanity . |
| 14 | Fujitsu and Siemens have been bes ' friends for decades , and Fujitsu already supplies Siemens biggest mainframe CPUs OEM , while Siemens markets Fujitsu VP supercomputers in Europe . |
| 15 | The European Council of Ministers on 10 March got fed up with Super-SARA — which was to have been Europe 's model for testing the conventional wisdom on safety designs — and axed the £200 million project . |
| 16 | Dan Goldin , the self-professed ‘ agent of change ’ who has been NASA 's administrator for a year , is using it as an opportunity to demonstrate what NASA could be capable of . |
| 17 | That had been Emma 's remedy for everything . |
| 18 | She had been Carolyn 's protector for so long . |
| 19 | had been Jasper 's impetus for months . |