Example sentences of "had been for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paul climbed the stairs in trepidation ; had he made some mistake in the corrections , blind with pain as he had been for part of the day ? |
| 2 | The longing he 'd kindled within her had been for love — his love . |
| 3 | He had no idea what an effort it had been for Topaz to keep up the easy flow of chatter . |
| 4 | Lewis , whose youthful enthusiasm had been for Norse sagas and the verse tales of William Morris , seems to have been converted to Christianity by considering whether the Christian myth might not , after all ‘ be something more than a fiction . |
| 5 | Most of his earlier stage designs had been for opera , and the latest of them , Simon Boccanegra , had been the big hit of the preceding season . |
| 6 | This shows that Anselm was quite as ready to face exile for the primacy as he had been for obedience to the pope . |
| 7 | He stressed that his advice to go ahead with detailed planning for the £5 million junction had been for guidance only and that the full approval of the CIOR would still have to be sought before the junction was commissioned . |