Example sentences of "that he had [be] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The possibility that he had been killed for some reason connected with his father 's letters did not occur to Derek . |
| 2 | Shortly afterwards his father died : he felt that he had been punished for expecting too much . |
| 3 | He had joined up as Air Crew , and for several weeks had walked around proudly with the white flash in his cap , denoting that he had been selected for flying . |
| 4 | ‘ He was not in the premier division of drugs dealers in Belfast and police have no reason to contradict his assertion that he had been involved for a short time , ’ the Crown lawyer added . |
| 5 | In the following year his son-in-law ( Sir ) John Wolley [ q.v. ] told him that he had been recommended for the vice-presidency of Wales . |
| 6 | Could his intended victim have somehow guessed , from an unguarded look perhaps , that he had been marked for death ? |
| 7 | It was true he had had no stomach for the pallid lamb chops that he had been offered for lunch . |
| 8 | It agreed with the police that he had been arrested for cycling without due care and attention and that this had been sufficiently communicated to him . |