Example sentences of "had [be] [verb] [adv prt] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A vast open space had been cordoned off for the day . |
| 2 | Volkov had been written off for the last five years . |
| 3 | John told her that Mick , who had finished his examinations for Higher School Certificate , had been called up for the Royal Air Force . |
| 4 | A short while after the alert had been called off for the missing officer , a CID friend contacted me to see if I could help with their ‘ enquiries ’ . |
| 5 | In the Newport hundreds , where the level of lay assessments was low and left substantially unchanged by the subsidy , the proportion of wealth owned by the Church was much higher than in the more advanced Chilterns , not only in 1522 but also after the initial assessments had been scaled down for the subsidy . |
| 6 | They yesterday found out which rating band their houses had been placed in for the new tax , which starts next April . |
| 7 | Reveille for the remainder was at 0600 , as the transit camp we had been living in for the fortnight had to be handed over to the next inhabitants spick and span . |
| 8 | Even so , it was not until 27 May 1952 that sufficient of the detail had been thrashed out for the representatives of the six countries , meeting in Paris , to be able to sign the treaty establishing the EDC . |
| 9 | The 4,538 spectators at the game included about 1,000 visiting fans , and extra police officers had been drafted in for the game due to Cardiff 's large away following . |
| 10 | Manager ‘ Ila Tapueluelu , however , disclosed that five younger players had been drafted in for the Fiji event after a disappointing showing in a tournament in Western Samoa . |
| 11 | The boarding plank had been taken up for the night . |
| 12 | Having changed from sweat-sodden clothes , I found that , as the hotel had been taken over for the evening by a wedding party , I and an English couple had a dining-room to ourselves . |
| 13 | However , Frogmarsh Mill 's long involvement in the cloth trade was drawing to a close , for by 1863 it had been taken over for the manufacture of pins by the firm of Perkins , Critchley and Marmont . |
| 14 | Extra midwives had been taken on for the same reason . |
| 15 | Mistakenly , he had agreed to let Brompton-Smiley travel with him in the Rolls and discuss the matter of some urgency he had been whining about for the last two days . |
| 16 | Thus , in the vital days before September 1939 , not only had prime arrangements been undertaken in connection with aircraft and tanks , but the organisation had been laid down for the ready assembly of ambulance trains and casualty evacuation trains and , through the Mechanical and Electrical Engineers ' Consultative Committee , which was formed in the abortive crisis of September 1938 , to advise the Railway Executive Committee on matters pertaining to Railway Workshops , rolling stock and electrical undertakings . |
| 17 | She then went on to point out that several pieces of silver had been laid out for the dining room which bore clear remains of polish . |
| 18 | The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter . |
| 19 | The part was expected to have materialised in a low-end 50MHz to 70MHz Hummingbird machine that had been talked up for the end of this quarter ( UX No 414 ) . |
| 20 | There the rooms were filled with ancient furniture , preserved under white sheets , as if the house had been closed up for the summer only , while its occupant was absent . |
| 21 | The show had been set up for the little jockey but maybe , at some time in the future , Mrs Butler would be interested . |
| 22 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 23 | Somewhere , cowbells sounded ; the animals had been brought in for the night , maybe . |
| 24 | Through the centuries about twenty-five houses had been built in Ploughman 's Lane , first of all for the minor gentry , the widows and kinsmen , for instance , of the lord of the manor ; in more recent times , equally large and widely spaced dwellings had been put up for the professional class . |