Example sentences of "he have [be] [vb pp] for [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years . |
2 | He has been banned for six months after being sent off in the Royal Liver League final replay against Donegal . |
3 | Unfortunately John Scott Morgan had to postpone his planned October talk ( but he has been booked for next May , see below ) . |
4 | He 'd been held for eleven days . |
5 | ‘ He 'd been held for four months . |
6 | His pelvis fractured and back broken , he 'd been hospitalized for eighteen months , was undergoing final therapy and still a lieutenant in the Finnish Air Force when , on June 25 , 1941 , Finland joined forces with Nazi Germany and declared war on Russia . |
7 | He had been earmarked for senior management and his posting to the US was intended to serve a double purpose . |
8 | His hair , untended , curled thick as a dog 's at his neck under a shapeless wool cap , and his mind was turned patently inwards ; far from seeking , or even thinking of the men from whom he had been parted for six weeks . |
9 | He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low . |
10 | By now he was of an age to make his own decisions , the first of which was to marry the English girl to whom he had been engaged for two years . |
11 | Shortly after liberation in 1945 , he married Peggy Whitall , to whom he had been engaged for seven years . |
12 | The most recent outstanding event in Jim 's distinguished career was the publication of his definitive catalogue of the collections of Christ Church , Oxford , on which he had been engaged for several years , coinciding with the opening of the new galleries to contain them . |
13 | He had been treated for nine months in one hospital and two months in another , and had returned home with recurrent dislocation of one knee and an un-united fracture of the other thigh . |
14 | The possibility that he had been killed for some reason connected with his father 's letters did not occur to Derek . |
15 | It was probably the first time he had been asked for such a drink , despite his long years of service . |
16 | Not for the first time Rostov wondered why he had been selected for this particular mission . |
17 | His judgment was almost impeccable , and on the ground where he had been caught for 99 five years earlier ( by Gower , the only current survivor from that England side ) , he now stood tall among the innings ruins . |
18 | He had been banned for three years for drink-driving in January , 1991. 18-month ban A DRINK-driver fractured three ribs when his car hit a skip , Wirral magistrates were told yesterday . |
19 | ‘ I asked him how he had been chosen for this honour and he told me ‘ I was pushed ’ ’ . |
20 | No in fact he 's not , he 's been arrested for some other crime . |
21 | Now he 's been banned for another 12 months at Banbury , Oxfordshire . |