Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] been [vb pp] for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The remaining vote was declared invalid due to a technicality , although it had apparently been cast for Jones . |
| 2 | He had not been prepared for Cheltenham the same as some horses are , because there had been a last-minute change of plan for him and he would not have been really galloped hard . |
| 3 | He had not been prepared for John to stand on the floor of the penthouse , complaining . |
| 4 | Hence , with the exception of Henry III 's action of December 1259 , liege homage ( in its full and proper form ) had not been performed for Aquitaine prior to the accession of Philip IV in 1285 . |
| 5 | That receipt would have acted as a bill of sale for the dogs , but without it ‘ Title of Ownership ’ had not been passed for Sophie and Robbie . |
| 6 | Those based east of the Meuse , in lands that had always been destined for Lothar , readily answered his summons to a great assembly at Ingelheim in August . |
| 7 | She turned from Schmidt and said , ‘ My husband … ’ then immediately turned back , as if unaware of the other car , making it seem that her remark had always been intended for Schmidt . |
| 8 | The election had originally been planned for March 1 , but was postponed because of the need to finalize a new election law , which was approved by the People 's Assembly on Feb. 4 , and because , according to reports , the government faced difficulties in financing and organizing the election . |
| 9 | The elections had originally been scheduled for January 1990 and then postponed to Feb. 18 when they were abandoned soon after polling started upon the observation of irregularities , and Djohar 's rivals accused him of vote-rigging . |
| 10 | The shipment had originally been scheduled for May — the first of some 10,000 tonnes of rice which the South had agreed to barter during 1991 — but had been delayed by US objections . |
| 11 | President Joao Bernardo Vieira on Nov. 4 announced the postponement until March 1993 of legislative and presidential elect-ions which had originally been scheduled for Nov. 15 and Dec. 13 respectively . |