Example sentences of "had [adv] been for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had all been for nothing ; the fear , the guilt , the deaths … . |
| 2 | The mad drive up the M4 with pain like barbed hooks turning in his arm had all been for nothing . |
| 3 | All of her sweet , loving nature that she 'd turned in on herself , waiting for this one moment in her life , this moment of truth , and it had all been for nothing . |
| 4 | So it had all been for nothing ! |
| 5 | She had consulted an astrologer once before , even if it had only been for a lark , so why not consult another one now ? |
| 6 | His deterioration through Alzheimer 's Disease with its abundant frustrations had long been for him a physical and mental martyrdom . |
| 7 | Following my economically truthful pronouncements on the local meteorological trends ( I had already been for a pee ) , he reluctantly committed himself to an extended struggle with frozen boots and gaiters , muttering foul oaths about his much vaunted , but now soaked , pair of newly customised salopettes . |
| 8 | Forgotten was the fearful nail-biting exercise Monaghan Day had always been for the whole house ; with distance it had become large , heroic , blood-mystical , something from which the impossible could be snatched . |
| 9 | They were marching behind the others with great dignity , accountable as they had always been for good order and common sense and respectable behaviour . |
| 10 | The station had always been for her a place instinct with glory ; its function beautified it immeasurably in her eyes . |
| 11 | Thousands of school children , all of them well over sixteen , were crammed there into a large tall gilt room , and told not to insult the French , not to talk to Arabs , and not to go to Montmartre : then an English lady stood up and said that Paris had always been for her a source inépuisable de something , and everyone clapped , and then they were all turned out again , rather quickly , for the room was clearly needed for something else . |
| 12 | By the late 1980s , the attractions of city life were not what they had once been for the peasants . |
| 13 | And there had also been for many years the musical evenings at your parents ' home . |
| 14 | Owned by Raymond Guest and trained in Ireland by Vincent O'Brien , Sir Ivor came to Laurel Park as probably the best European challenger there had yet been for the Washington International . |
| 15 | All that bottled-up vitriol for the man he 'd been waiting for had actually been for her . |
| 16 | But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm , or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck , we ought to consider another possibility — that imagism , and Pound 's endorsement of Ford 's insistence on ‘ the prose tradition ’ , had never been for him more than an aberration , though in the short term a very profitable one , from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would , in the interests of melody , tolerate notably eccentric diction . |
| 17 | Her taste , which had never been for understatement , influenced his , which had always been a little austere . |