Example sentences of "been [vb pp] and [verb] for [det] " in BNC.

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1 Most of the money is owed by people whose homes have been repossessed and sold for less than their outstanding mortgage .
2 Miss Keeler 's love life had provided a sensational scandal in that a ‘ coloured friend ’ , moved to desperate jealousy by her behaviour , had opened fire at the window of her home and been arrested and charged for that offence .
3 So many thousands of differences have been hybridized and bred for that it has become well nigh impossible to find a variation that has not been tried before , but which is new , and can reap a rich reward for the nursery that is first on to the market with it .
4 Various soldiers had , it said , been tried and imprisoned for such crimes .
5 Many temples , caves , burial chambers and ‘ vision pits ’ have been constructed and used for this purpose .
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