Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [adv] in [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leaving his cry wafting after him , he disappeared in pursuit of a housemaid who was busily removing all the clean antimacassars that had only just been placed lovingly in position for the oil-bedaubed heads that would shortly be resting on them . |
| 2 | Before Reflexology was researched and developed in America in the 1930s , work on reflexes of the feet had been carried on in China for thousands of years . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been waiting around in Reception for about ten minutes . ’ |
| 4 | As a matter of interest and as a direct result of our attendance at five of these Auctions — a total of 37 unweaned foals and ponies were rescued , and a small FOAL SANCTUARY has just been set up in Burnley for their rehabilitation . |
| 5 | Police sources said the use of bombs little heavier than a packet of butter could herald a new tactic aimed at beating the roadblocks that have been set up in London for the first time . |
| 6 | He said the car had been laid up in storage for 30 years . |
| 7 | A new Expert book has been brought out in time for Christmas . |
| 8 | THE lights of the Empire State Building , the brightest jewel on the Manhattan skyline , have been switched off in retaliation for the jailing of Mrs Leona ‘ Queen Meanie ’ Helmsley , the self-styled Hotel Queen who failed to pay her million-dollar tax bill . |
| 9 | The party atmosphere went on all through dinner , prevailed through a short scene put on by Zak to explain that the Mountie had been left behind in Winnipeg for investigations on the ground and heated up thoroughly afterwards with more unsteady dancing and laughter in the dome car . |
| 10 | It is important to note that most campaigners have been working quietly in communities for years but despite this , attitudes on genital mutilation have not changed very much . |