Example sentences of "he [verb] been [vb pp] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | McHale plans to use the extra £50,000 he has been given for players ' wages to good effect . |
| 2 | He has been jailed for explosives offences in Ulster and has previously been denied a visa . |
| 3 | Where the Crown Court is dealing with an offender for offences for which he has been committed for sentence under Criminal Justice Act 1967. s.56 , whether they are summary or either way , the Court must observe the limitations which would apply in the magistrates ' court to the sentence for those offences . |
| 4 | He was gathering data for a book about world metro systems , a task on which he had been engaged for years . |
| 5 | It was true he had had no stomach for the pallid lamb chops that he had been offered for lunch . |
| 6 | But Maher could not ride Craganour in the Derby as he had been claimed for Lord Rosebery 's Prue , and the favourite was partnered by the American jockey Johnny Reiff . |
| 7 | Although he had been immersed for days in Ridley 's exotic tale , searching out the coiling roots of Coleridge 's Kubla Khan , and although he knew intellectually that so many of these stories and poems were impregnated with an unconscious symbolism which later adventures into the human psyche were to make so much more explicit , he was temperamentally incapable of seeing the hidden meaning within this laborious passing from the ‘ dungeon of lust ’ into the pellucidly clear air of the mountains of Tasgi where voices shouted in exultation . |
| 8 | He had been imprisoned for want of bail . |
| 9 | He had been bred for battle by the Witch King himself . |
| 10 | He had been marked for life . |
| 11 | Could his intended victim have somehow guessed , from an unguarded look perhaps , that he had been marked for death ? |
| 12 | Writing to the Countess of Rutland in 1670 from his ‘ uncouth cell ’ in the Fleet prison , where he had been committed for debt , Crowe was scathing about the quality of the tapestries produced by William , Earl of Craven [ q.v. ] , and his associates who had taken over from him at Mortlake in 1667 . |
| 13 | And yes , he 's been mistaken for food a few times ! |
| 14 | OLYMPIC aces returning from Barcelona this week brought back a very silly story about cycling superstar Chris Boardman : ‘ Have you heard he 's been tested for drugs . ’ |
| 15 | He 's been jailed for firearms , fraud and passport offences and caught smuggling 4 tons of cannabis into Australia . |
| 16 | President Bill Clinton has been in the White House just a month but already he 's been proposed for Oxford University 's highest honour . |