Example sentences of "been for [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Buddy would have been 56 this year and no doubt raving on even now had it not been for that fateful February in 1959 … the day the music died .
2 Sad though that may have been for that particular patient , there was a positive side , the cancer never reappeared .
3 And doubtless there would have been many more had it not been for that unfortunate accident which befell Mr Rabbit in Mr MacGregor 's garden whereby he ended up in one of Mrs MacGregor 's rabbit pies .
4 They had been for some ten minutes locked in a close embrace , the length of their bodies pressed together .
5 Erm the certification of the flight control system is the critical path item and has been for some considerable time .
6 It was in his experience difficult for most people to prove conclusively exactly where they had been for any forty-eight-hour period , members of the Metropolitan police force always excepted , and this was going to make his life very difficult .
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