Example sentences of "had been [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if she came and found Tina up she could pretend to herself that Tina had been up for hours , and was a normal person and a proper mother . |
| 2 | He had been up for hours , out on the farm , before eating . |
| 3 | She had been up for five hours . |
| 4 | She had told him once as they lay at peace in bed that the sleep after childbirth , an unconsciousness that might only last a split second , was the most complete sleep she had ever known and when you woke from it you felt you had been elsewhere for a hundred years . |
| 5 | They were in the middle of a meeting and he was irritated that Stevens ' mind — often his entire presence — had been elsewhere for weeks . |
| 6 | Gabrielle was granted a decree nisi in a five-minute hearing at the Divorce Court in London , on the grounds that the couple had been apart for more than two years . |
| 7 | Secondly , a while ago I mentioned that a guy called Alan Byrne had been over for a trial , in Elland Road , from Shamrock Rovers in Dublin . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She had been here for twenty minutes , during which time Alida Thorne had backtracked and made difficulties , pretended not to understand . |
| 10 | Now that we had been here for nearly seven weeks , we were beginning to wonder if the final climax would ever take place at all . |
| 11 | Whatever the precise date , she knew she had been here for the best part of a month , confined in this tumbledown shepherd 's dwelling among the mountains . |
| 12 | If no one had been here for years , why did she fancy she could smell cigarette smoke ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If the hon. and learned Member for Burton ( Mr. Lawrence ) had been here for the speech of my right hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham , Sparkbrook ( Mr. Hattersley ) |
| 15 | Second , it was based in and expressed a paradox : that the educational reform had been primarily for men ; women were still relatively excluded . |
| 16 | I had been away for the weekend and David Bowie is not the most domesticated person in the world . |
| 17 | Faith has to return to work ; she had been away for almost two and a half months , but Continental Airlines generously sent Tim to Kupang to see if he could help . |
| 18 | After his visits to London his wife was waiting to welcome him as if he had been away for weeks , and she was always dutiful in bed . |
| 19 | Trotter had been away for two weeks . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He noticed that when local church leaders had been away for Bible School training , they ceased to tell stories in their preaching . |
| 22 | She , it turned out , was away , and had been away for some weeks , touring the clubs in the North . |
| 23 | Nevertheless they smiled and waved at him as he came in and Deuce , at the tape recorder , came over , arms open , as if he had been away for weeks . |
| 24 | To make matters worse , the two men had been ordered to Germany to attend a conference , and had been away for eight days . |
| 25 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Marijuana , liberalism , wild living and protestation had been around for a long time . |
| 28 | The principles of magnetic recording had been around for a long time . |
| 29 | In any case , the phobia had been around for so long that one extra week would not really make any difference . |
| 30 | As veteran commentator George Melly remarked : ‘ The trad boom was both unexpected and untypical ; its heroes were far older than the norm and had been around for much longer ; the emphasis was instrumental rather than vocal ; the sexual aspect was almost non-existent . ’ |