Example sentences of "for [v-ing] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far , the free world has liked him both for having been , and for having ceased to be , a communist of a sort , for the freedoms he seeks in matters of literary form , for the modern inventiveness and manipulation of the literary games he plays , games that none the less commemorate , as he acknowledges , Cervantes , Sterne and Diderot , and for the sexual games which he plays in an age when , as he once put it , sexuality has ceased to be taboo . |
| 2 | Secondly , even though group weddings do occur , for example among people like the Samburu of East Africa , where traditionally all the young men of the same age group married on the same day a group of girls , this does not mean that the marriages are any less individual affairs for having been celebrated all at the same time . |
| 3 | In the last session , Congress passed a bill to give some 60,000 Japanese-Americans compensation of about $20,000 ( £12,500 ) each for having been interned , without trial , simply for being Japanese , after the 1941 Japanese assault on Pearl Harbour . |
| 4 | I felt so proud of my father for having been such a fine craftsman . |
| 5 | As a career move , it was a disaster : for the past 300 years , he has been remembered almost solely for having been the butt of some of Dryden 's most swingeing satirical couplets . |
| 6 | Note that there is no reason for anyone to restrain their thoughts or their reflections on the reasons which apply to the case , nor are they necessarily debarred from criticising the arbitrator for having ignored certain reasons or for having been mistaken about their significance . |
| 7 | In what way will children be better off for having been to school than they would be if they had stayed at home ? |
| 8 | A few seconds later I was despising myself for having been in any doubt . |
| 9 | I just wanted a reason for having been out , in case I was caught coming back . ’ |
| 10 | Anyway , we thought it would be suitably ironic and some sort of justice for having been booted off the Argent tour to cover that song , especially as Argent have not existed for a long time . |
| 11 | But I ask myself one question : what should be the reparation for having been removed from life for 18 years , with my brothers ? |
| 12 | If Cambodians fear the Khmers Rouges enough , they may forgive the Phnom Penh government for having been put in power by the Vietnamese . |
| 13 | In 1723 , for example , the member of parliament for Stirlingshire was John Graham of Killearn , the chamberlain of the Duke of Montrose , a man chiefly remembered for having been relieved of the duke 's rents at pistol point by Rob Roy MacGregor . |
| 14 | She apologizes to Thrift for having been angry , then remembers that it was Thrift that had dictated her previous parsimonious , sparing applications , and is confused . |
| 15 | She owed that to him at least for having been , over the years , such a disappointment to her father . |
| 16 | It pleased me immeasurably to know that he could sense the difference now , the promise of fulfilment , which would be the sweeter , it seemed to me , for having been so long deferred . |
| 17 | It was his own fault for having been conceited enough to be pleasant to her on the morning of the read-through . |
| 18 | I stretched , grunting with pain as my leg muscles extracted their revenge for having been ignored twelve hours earlier . |
| 19 | She even apologized for having been poor company on the journey . |
| 20 | However , Bernard had filled the bottles with supermarket plonk , considering this adequate revenge for having been told by the same neighbour that his new perfume was ‘ rather bourgeois ’ . |
| 21 | Portlington was a public school so minor that you got none of the cachet for having been there that is the real point of an English public school education . |
| 22 | However , the frown on his face did not surprise her , as it probably meant he was annoyed with himself for having been quite so fervent in the way he 'd crushed her lips beneath his own . |
| 23 | Although annoyed with herself for having been so indiscreet , she was still unable to control her tongue as words slipped from her . |
| 24 | How many smokers who were hooked when 12 , 13 , or 14 , in their formative years , are grateful for having been subjected to the wiles of the tobacco and advertising industries ? |
| 25 | After suffering strokes in 1983 and 1986 , Abernathy caused controversy in 1989 when he published his autobiography And the Walls Came Tumbling Down , in which he expressed regret for having been seen as " no more than an appendage to Martin " . |
| 26 | The Asyut region was noted for having been a focus for Islamic fundamentalist agitation against President Anwar Sadat prior to his assassination in October 1981 . |
| 27 | On Nov. 30 , immediately before the opening of the Congress of People 's Deputies , Russia 's Constitutional Court announced its verdict in the cases brought against Yeltsin 's August 1991 ban on the CPSU and the Russian Communist Party ( RCP ) , and also against the CPSU for having been " unconstitutional " [ for progress of CPSU hearing see pp. 38923 ; 39020 ; 39154-55 ] . |
| 28 | Rafeedie dismissed the case against Alvarez as " the wildest speculation " and rebuked the DEA for having been complicit in the abduction of Alvarez when there was nothing but circumstantial evidence to suggest that he had participated in Camarena 's torture or death . |
| 29 | Owen cursed himself for having been so foolhardy as to get involved in this affair . |
| 30 | William Hutton , the son of a framework knitter , was sent to work at Derby 's silk mill in 1730 ; he later cursed his luck for having been born in the one city in the world where such could have been his fate . |