Example sentences of "had [adv] been open for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The windows had not been opened for years and had forgotten how it went . |
| 2 | It was the smell of a hundred bodies that had not been bathed for a week , of a hundred sets of clothes that had been lived and slept in for a week , of excreta and vomit trapped by the windows that had not been opened for a week . |
| 3 | The only other entrance was a small door to the left of the sanctuary but that was closed with a padlock , rusting with age , and obviously had not been opened for years . |
| 4 | On the other hand , only 25 per cent of the Kosovo electorate turned out to vote , most of these being Serbs , following calls by ethnic Albanians for a total boycott , and Tanjug reported that in Kosovo some 400 polling stations had not been opened for voting by the local authorities . |
| 5 | erm as if a window had never been opened for years and years and years that type of a house . |