Example sentences of "he [vb past] [be] [vb pp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was gathering data for a book about world metro systems , a task on which he had been engaged for years . |
| 2 | It was true he had had no stomach for the pallid lamb chops that he had been offered for lunch . |
| 3 | But Maher could not ride Craganour in the Derby as he had been claimed for Lord Rosebery 's Prue , and the favourite was partnered by the American jockey Johnny Reiff . |
| 4 | Although he had been immersed for days in Ridley 's exotic tale , searching out the coiling roots of Coleridge 's Kubla Khan , and although he knew intellectually that so many of these stories and poems were impregnated with an unconscious symbolism which later adventures into the human psyche were to make so much more explicit , he was temperamentally incapable of seeing the hidden meaning within this laborious passing from the ‘ dungeon of lust ’ into the pellucidly clear air of the mountains of Tasgi where voices shouted in exultation . |
| 5 | He had been imprisoned for want of bail . |
| 6 | He had been bred for battle by the Witch King himself . |
| 7 | He had been marked for life . |
| 8 | Could his intended victim have somehow guessed , from an unguarded look perhaps , that he had been marked for death ? |
| 9 | Writing to the Countess of Rutland in 1670 from his ‘ uncouth cell ’ in the Fleet prison , where he had been committed for debt , Crowe was scathing about the quality of the tapestries produced by William , Earl of Craven [ q.v. ] , and his associates who had taken over from him at Mortlake in 1667 . |
| 10 | KIWI referee David Bishop has had an exciting year , what with being ‘ congratulated ’ in the Parc des Princes tunnel by Daniel Dubroca and then being asked whether he minded being wired for sound to the whole stadium for the Springbok-Wallaby clash at Newlands . |