Example sentences of "it [vb past] been [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then maybe after it 'd been cut for two days , you were sent out to turn the swathes , up all you went along and you turned them and turned them . |
| 2 | It had been written for an age when wind was still the motive power for most of the world 's shipping , so that , though technically out of date , it was invaluable for some of the work I was doing , particularly wire splicing , and if we were rolled over and had to jury-rig the ship it would be a life saver . |
| 3 | But it was Raynor who told her things about the Castle she did not know ; how it had been built for the first High Queen of all , and how the ancient pure magic had been woven into its walls . |
| 4 | The cottage itself was not exactly pretty : red-brick and foursquare , it had been built for a farm labourer and his family in the middle of the last century . |
| 5 | It had been built for Mr King 's grandfather in the days when he was known as Collector of Mails . |
| 6 | Hangman 's Wood suffered so severely from the gales because , like much of our woodlands , it had been neglected for decades . |
| 7 | That was kept in a cabinet — but ‘ regrettably , ’ said Mr Boal , the lock on it had been broken for months . |
| 8 | It may never have been genuinely effective , or it may have failed because the organism lost its antibiotic properties when it had been grown for years in artificial cultures , or because its commercial manufacture was inadequately supervised . |
| 9 | Should the elective resolution cease to have effect , if the authority has lasted for 5 years or more before the election it expires forthwith : otherwise it has effect as if it had been given for a fixed period of 5 years . |
| 10 | It had been prepared for quite some time and the brunt of it was against the Serbs , ’ said Col Jovanovic . |
| 11 | This is not to diminish Sacrosanctum Concilium , which ranks with the Constitutions on the Church , on Scripture and the Pastoral Mission of the Church as one of the major documents of Vatican II , but at least as much as they — and perhaps more so — it had been prepared for during the pontificate of Pius XII . |
| 12 | Though the stone was large , the ornate gold band was small , and it fitted as if it had been made for her . |
| 13 | It had all trees on it and looked as if it had been made for picnics . |
| 14 | It had been argued for the defendant that the payments had been made voluntarily to close the transaction , but Lord Reading held that payment under the type of pressure he had described was not so made . |
| 15 | But it had been fixed for days in its usual place and she was sure they would make for that . |
| 16 | The Terrorist Squad believed it had been intended for the Lord Mayor 's Parade later that day . |
| 17 | Viking is way behind schedule : it had been intended for this quarter , but StorageTek said that based on the present status of the product and schedule estimates it expects IBM-compatible products based on Viking architecture to be available in the second half of 1994 . |
| 18 | Ken told the story as though it had been scripted for him for Hancock 's Half Hour . |
| 19 | They were then very pleased to read in the book that it had been done for the very same reasons . |
| 20 | The schedule of accommodation which forms the basic document around which the rest of the building note is developed , and which I shall illustrate , was prepared , for this particular group of patients , in precisely the same way as it had been done for some of the other sub-groups within mental illness and mental handicapped for which various supplements have been prepared to which I referred above . |
| 21 | It had been recognised for some time that only through rationalisation into larger productive and distributive units could the movement overcome the damaging rivalries among societies in the same neighbourhood , and through economies of scale promote further growth . |
| 22 | At lunch , Dick Hansen decided that the pieces he could see ( because it had been disassembled for shipping ) from the pictures merited a closer look and so Dick called the owner to verify the price . |
| 23 | In his view , the letter should be used to show that the Board 's policy in the one county in which it had been implemented for at least two years was a misconceived , divisive one . |
| 24 | It had been destined for the pinacotheca but the dealer had had a soft spot for Charlotte . … |
| 25 | By the end of the sixteenth century it had been compounded for a cash payment from the counties and had thus become a straightforward tax . |
| 26 | The principle of treatment of like by like , however , had been enunciated by Hippocrates in the fifth century BC , but it had been forgotten for centuries until rediscovered by Hahnemann . |
| 27 | Now when you say right across , I mean you you 've ta seen the photos of , of er shell pitted ground with the nineteen fourteen eighteen war , well that 's how Bentley was then cos it had been rooted for coal and nineteen twenty six strike everybody got it all out cos there was a lot of top surface coal , course it was just left there was a lot of mole holes , stuff from the furnaces when they tip tipped the slag , it was up and down and there was Buttons Brook , was n't it Buttons Brook across there , called Buttons Brook there was a pool across there called Leg of Lamb but I mean it , it er you can imagine what I 'm trying to say , what the ground was like to go over in pitch black night , to go over there and we went out and course we was issued with er ammunition which was one of the o only times I can remember when we went really out prepared with live ammunition , and er we scouted and scouted till daybreak and we did n't find nothing . |
| 28 | It had been rented for generations from a local landowner . |
| 29 | And ‘ the moor ’ is the description of the scene before it had been claimed for cultivation . |
| 30 | The painting dates from around 1903–05 but was only rediscovered last year in New England , where it had been bought for $175 in 1905 when the artist made a trip abroad to find a new audience for his Nihonga work . |