Example sentences of "have been [verb] for a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was built around 1590 for a younger son of the Earl of Shaftesbury , whose family had owned the manor of Restrop for three hundred years , The coat of arms of the Ashley-Coopers ( the Shaftesbury family name ) is over the door , and it is very unlikely that such a very fine house , with its particularly beautiful roofs over the projecting bays , would have been built for a tenant farmer . |
| 2 | Her eyes were nearer black than brown and she wore woollen knee stockings ; from a distance she could have been mistaken for a child , of either sex . |
| 3 | If her eyes had not been so bright and alert , she could have been mistaken for a corpse . |
| 4 | And which of the men might have been mistaken for a woman ? |
| 5 | I was glad he chose to wear it , for otherwise , in his shirt-sleeves and braces walking between us , it could have been mistaken for an arrest or at least a ‘ helping with inquiries ’ and the last thing I wanted was a street riot . |
| 6 | The infant Labour Party was just building its strength , but it was not yet capable of winning seats on its own , and it might have been checkmated for a generation by a positive social policy financed from tariffs . |
| 7 | Thus , in a lesson lasting an hour , each pupil will have been observed for a maximum of 10 minutes spread at regular intervals over the hour . |
| 8 | After watching feeble jokes about Norma Major 's voting intentions and Neil Kinnock 's image , I wished it could have been monitored for an injection of humour . |
| 9 | It is now believed that they may have been written for a subscription concert series in 1788 — the ‘ Casino ’ series mentioned in a letter to Puchberg , which may have taken place in the autumn . |
| 10 | At this time of the evening they 'd have been drinking for an hour . |
| 11 | Must have been looking for a house . |
| 12 | Possibly , Haines 's public ‘ unveiling ’ should have been left for a while as he felt unable at this early stage to give firm views on major issues , such as racing 's finances and Jockey Club justice . |
| 13 | One wonders whether an England bowler would have been picked for a tour after a start like that . |
| 14 | Life must go on , they intimated , while stressing that the stadium would never have been considered for a semi-final involving Liverpool or Nottingham Forest . |
| 15 | Had it been out on the public streets he would have been arrested for a breach of the peace . |
| 16 | It altered her appearance considerably , making her look older and quite severe , and in her new black working dress she could have been taken for a widow . |
| 17 | Evans sees it as an adaptation of the Egyptian dog-ape , possibly developing from the monkey frescoes in the Knossos Labyrinth ; the monkey was not native to Crete and the animal may have been taken for a monster and so given an impulse to the creation of other monsters . |
| 18 | Even dressed as he now was , in a blue cotton jacket and trousers , he could never have been taken for an Italian , and since he was n't able to walk — he could only hop on one leg — or speak the language , he was hardly likely to remain free for long out in the open . |
| 19 | He looks like a leader , and his name could have been invented for a passport to cross the maze of ethnic boundaries . |