Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [vb pp] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been hired for some zany roles in this metropolis , and a few of them leaned towards the crooked . |
| 2 | Speaking immediately after his election , John Young said : ‘ I am honoured and delighted to be elected Deputy Vice President and I see it as an opportunity to contribute to some of the serious issues facing the profession , and to represent a body with which I have been involved for much of my life . |
| 3 | I have been involved for many years with the channel tunnel project as a whole and its associated terminal at King 's Cross . |
| 4 | my vocation — the work , ministry , roles I am called to and the gifts I have been given for these . |
| 5 | That 's correct , and that the further down , I mean it says that er there is a er it says that the reason you 've had been the reason you 've been sent for this treatment is because of er a particular condition you 've got . |
| 6 | We 've also included in there , on item twelve , a net bill item , but does need to be recognized as an addition to your total spending , and that is , you 've been involved for many years with the health authority in arranging for the discharge of people from long-stay hospitals , and their absorption into the community , and each of these are a provider of many services , and daycare services to those particular individuals . |
| 7 | She said we are not employed , we are , so I said oh , what 's the difference , you pay for that , you 've been paid for that , I said , because I promise you can , you can go . |
| 8 | ‘ You have been selected for this commission because of your exceptional technical skills , and your great artistic ability . |
| 9 | No I did n't Stefan , we 've been blamed for some things in our time , have n't we but |
| 10 | We had been affianced for some weeks . ’ |
| 11 | However , the know-how fund is doing extremely good work throughout the former Soviet republics , where we have been asked for that help , as it is in the rest of central and eastern Europe . |
| 12 | We have been told for several centuries now that every child is naturally different and it is therefore wrong to impose on one the mould which has been prepared for others unlike it . |
| 13 | He , too , married a girl of his own milieu ; they 've been separated for many years . |
| 14 | they 've been done for many years |
| 15 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 16 | When they had been seated for some time Titch said : ‘ I suppose you 've heard the news ? ’ |
| 17 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 18 | She had brought glasses and dishes from home , she said ; they had been boxed for many years too long . |
| 19 | But they had been chosen for some little time already . |
| 20 | They had been provided for many years by the YWCA , and other urban based and normally middle class-run charitable societies dispensing relief and assistance . |
| 21 | The sixteen paintings seem likely to remain with the Uffizi , where they have been stored for some time . |
| 22 | Although they have been known for many years their evolutionary position is still hotly debated . |
| 23 | They have been used for many years as propellants in aerosols , in the production of some foam packaging and as coolants in refrigerators . |
| 24 | This approach , a very recent development for credit in this country ( though of course it has been accepted for many years as the basis of car insurance ratings ) , started in America . |
| 25 | Because of its limited appeal among Grand Prix drivers , it has been ignored for some record purposes in the statistical section to be found at the end of this chapter . |
| 26 | It has been suspected for some time that North Korea has been working on a nuclear device . |
| 27 | It has been felt for some time that the procedure and forms relating to the granting of legal aid in criminal causes could be improved , and the introduction of legal aid in the District Courts has led to the position being scrutinised and a new procedure and application form introduced . |
| 28 | It has been advanced for some time by both the Liberal party and the Electoral Reform Society . |
| 29 | Let us begin by trying to understand the rationale for the system ; after all , it has been used for many years and must presumably have had some point to it . |
| 30 | It has been used for many years in traveller 's diarrhoea , as a colostomy deodoriser , and as an antispirochetal agent in syphilis . |