Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] been [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had barely been gone for an hour when there came the signal that Thorfinn had been waiting for . |
| 2 | I gathered from Anthony ( whom I saw later on Thursday ) that he had neither been asked for his advice nor had volunteered it . |
| 3 | And he had not been seen for some days . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He had not been prepared for John to stand on the floor of the penthouse , complaining . |
| 6 | It seemed a wise precaution to lunge him first , as he had not been ridden for three days , and this was accomplished in a corner of the field without either difficulties or a great deal of finesse . |
| 7 | Lawrence was elected British president , and discharged his difficult task with a calmness , courtesy , and firmness which won universal approval , even from the defendants , the soldiers among whom thought that their problems were appreciated by one who had gained the DSO as a gunner officer in World War I. Praise was also given by the British alternate judge , Sir Norman ( later first Baron ) Birkett [ q.v. ] , who was secretly resentful that he had not been chosen for the post . |
| 8 | ( But in the 1930s , while a teacher of anatomy at the University of Birmingham and investigating hormonal influences in reproduction , he had already been reproved for obscenity by the Archbishop of Canterbury — the executive head of the Anglican Church — over his first book , The Social Life of Monkeys and Apes . ) |
| 9 | Magistrates heard he had already been banned for life from keeping animals when an RSPCA inspection revealed he still had more . |
| 10 | By the time the Master himself arrived in London to be examined in August 1669 , he had already been suspended for two months past by the Chancellor of the Archbishop of York until the controversy could be settled . |
| 11 | Which made me think of Springsteen and the fact that he had n't been fed for nearly twenty-four hours . |
| 12 | With two broken legs he 'd have starved to death if he had n't been cared for … now he can look forward to a rather more chirpy 1992 . |
| 13 | Russell was later told he had n't been selected for the world cup . |
| 14 | ‘ He had n't been beaten for a long time , and was very confident so I think defeat came as a bit of a shock . |
| 15 | Wondering why he had n't been awakened for his breakfast , he contemplated snuggling down beneath the covers for another few moments when he heard the door bell ring . |
| 16 | He 'd explain that in the kerfuffle last night he had n't been paid for the jobs he 'd done . |
| 17 | He had never been treated for mental illness , and Delroy was still alive in Jamaica . |
| 18 | He had never been used for a hit , and it was unlikely that he could get from Moscow to Tbilisi anyway . |