Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been [vb pp] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within minutes the car was free , and before I could thank the young farmer I 'd been invited back for a cup of tea and some hot broth . |
| 2 | I wish you and I had been tied together for ever ! ’ |
| 3 | Mat. 's door , in my own mind I had been slung out for encouraging unseemly behaviour from a male patient and was miserably working on the choice of my next career . |
| 4 | I realized that this was the same place Brian and I had been held in for a week in May 1988 before going to the Pit . |
| 5 | She 'd been summoned there for refusing to pay a poll tax surcharge of £14.52 . |
| 6 | She 'd been sent there for contempt of court by Essex magistrates when she refused to answer questions about her personal finances in a poll tax case . |
| 7 | Later she worked out that she had been kept underground for four months . |
| 8 | The contract had been until the end of September when she could reapply for the job she had been turned down for , ‘ provided she had had sufficient experience nursing very sick children ’ , he said . |
| 9 | His wife , Shirley , believed we 'd been brought together for a reason and , after a while , she reckoned my sight would be healed . |
| 10 | Four in five employees surveyed believed they had been turned down for jobs because they were too old , even though they had the right skills . |
| 11 | Some of the manuscript has been saved because it had been printed off for a friend to proof-read . |
| 12 | It was nonsense to pretend it had been done solely for her benefit . |
| 13 | Looks as though it had been cut out for some reason . |
| 14 | Its virtue was that it had no neighbours and it had been picked out for just that reason : no-one to ask questions , no-one expecting to start up a friendship . |
| 15 | As it had been hired out for stage work a few times and was n't perfect the selling price was thirty-five pounds . |
| 16 | There was a table beside it and a pipe lay on top as if it had been left just for a moment . |
| 17 | There are two pightles in this parish , both referring to elongated pieces of land , relics of the time when such shapes were left at the edge of a field after it had been divided up for strip-cultivation . |
| 18 | I moved the reliquary from its altar , after it had been swathed well for safety in moving it to a higher place . |
| 19 | However , Frogmarsh Mill 's long involvement in the cloth trade was drawing to a close , for by 1863 it had been taken over for the manufacture of pins by the firm of Perkins , Critchley and Marmont . |
| 20 | Instead they acted as a brake on German economic power by milking the state of subsidy as if it had been set up for that purpose alone . |
| 21 | It had been set aside for no obvious purpose with a low table and several padded vinyl seats ; they were old and split with yellow foam bulging out , and on the walls were two art-school lithographs bearing optimistic prices . |
| 22 | In Ballymacarrett , there was less unemployment , traditional gender roles were more clearly differentiated , the population was resident in traditional streets of terraced houses , and for the most part it had been established there for generations . |
| 23 | Not once , but six separate times … and now he had been warned off for good . |
| 24 | Cranston claimed that his relationship with Keating was essentially no different from that of the other four senators , but that , because he was suffering from cancer and had announced his intention not to seek re-election on the expiry in 1992 of his current term , he had been singled out for sanction as a " scapegoat " . |