Example sentences of "been [adj] for a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered whether he 'd been asleep for a while , or just deep in thought . |
| 2 | She felt heavy-lidded and drowsy , as if she had been asleep for a week . |
| 3 | I had been poorly for a while and could n't eat and the doctor thought it may be appendicitis so he sent me to Darlington Hospital . |
| 4 | In certain circumstances it might have been preferable for a beneficiary to have a real action , in which case he would press for interpretation as a legacy . |
| 5 | Without this control it would have been possible for a Committee with a bondholding minority to make bad decisions to the cost of the Bondholders . |
| 6 | If it had been possible for a bird to stop still with surprise in the air , and stay exactly where it was , that rook would have done it then . |
| 7 | Under these circumstances , it would have been possible for a ship sailing south from Thera to dock at Dia , unload and set sail again for destinations to the east or west . |
| 8 | She said the house had been damp for a year and she had complained to the council on numerous occasions . |
| 9 | It must have been distasteful for a man whose principles were always of the very highest . |
| 10 | If you have been unemployed for a while seek retraining as a first step to a new , positive attitude . |
| 11 | So do I. To anyone capable of seeing beyond a county bank balance , it has been clear for a number of years that there is too much limited-overs cricket played by the counties and that the present mix of three and four-day Championship games is not only confusing , especially now that they start on different days of the week , but also unnecessarily exhausting for all involved . |
| 12 | Children were fascinated by the ducks and it would have been easy for a toddler to slip through the fence , leaving mum stranded on the other side . |
| 13 | It can not have been easy for a man in his fifties to start afresh as an instrument-maker in London . |
| 14 | Throughout industry this election day , a host of trade unionists are waiting with acute anxiety , nursing their hopes : a Labour victory will enable them to reassert their influence on factories throughout the land , in a manner that has been impossible for a decade . |
| 15 | Once upon a time it would have been unthinkable for a band , especially one with such a reputation as Happy Mondays ’ , to apologise for their remarks without some sort of legal action being taken against them . |
| 16 | In the early years of the " new diplomacy " in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries it had not been unusual for a diplomat who died in post to be immediately succeeded by a relative , often a close one , who had been attached to his mission with this possibility in mind . |
| 17 | SIGARUP HAD BEEN ILL FOR A WEEK . |
| 18 | The man was an aristocrat , inconceivably wealthy , brother to an Earl , a Member of Parliament , a Colonel — that he had been amiable for a couple of passing days was surely something she could accept , absorb and forget . |
| 19 | Although it has been operational for a while , it was only recently that Ski survey visited this slope , to attend a Peter Lightfoot ski course . |
| 20 | Whenever Keith has been good for a day Mr Smith should watch a programme on the television with him . |
| 21 | They reflected a concept that had been current for a number of years , that experiments in planning free zones ought to be devised ( Banham et al . , |
| 22 | And erm , so of course , she 's , you know , not been well for a couple of weeks and she 's gone down from nine four , to seven stone . |
| 23 | Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days . |
| 24 | Peter Armstrong , prosecuting , said the couple had been married for a year but had lived together for four years before marrying . |
| 25 | and , and if she 's already scared of his temper and they 've not even lived together , well they have lived together for quite a while actually so I mean it 's not like they do n't know each other but once they 're married and they 've been married for a couple of years I reckon , and he starts thinking of her more as a possession sort of thing I can , I can really imagine |
| 26 | Davidson , who had previously been married for a total of less than five years to three different wives , said after falling for Tracie that she had made a new man of him . |
| 27 | As they were mainly couples who had been married for a number of years and were now able to move to a larger , more expensive home , their children ranged in age between seven and nineteen years . |
| 28 | One of them had been unconscious for a while . |
| 29 | Drilling performance to date has also been best-in-class for a reservoir of this type and complexity . |
| 30 | Confining ourselves to Vienna and the last few weeks alone , it seems he may also have been responsible for a couple of recent murders of prostitutes in the Altstadt . |