Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less than half the wines listed were selected for awards making the standard set one of the highest in the world . |
| 2 | This wrist model I tried was designed for air diving and programmed with the Bühlmann ZHL12 algorithm with automatic ranging from 3,500 metres above sea level to 100 metres depth . |
| 3 | He 'd been ordered to report to the Ministry by his Adjutant , and either there had been some colossal mistake or he 'd been sent for under false pretences . |
| 4 | ‘ I was expecting a relief nurse to arrive , and the doctor who 'd been sent for . |
| 5 | ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family . |
| 6 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 7 | He 'd been disqualified for not having insurance and disqualified before that for drink driving . |
| 8 | But then , when you said they 'd been gone for a couple of years … ’ |
| 9 | I wondered where Toby was — he 'd been gone for over thirty-six hours now . |
| 10 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
| 11 | They 'd been gone for so long now . |
| 12 | And then maybe after it 'd been cut for two days , you were sent out to turn the swathes , up all you went along and you turned them and turned them . |
| 13 | He said he 'd been followed for the last week or so . |
| 14 | Karen had dipped badly in her A-levels and had done two years in a commerce school before she 'd been accepted for her degree course . |
| 15 | Lucille Walker had n't brought me clear over to Hollywood just to tell me I 'd been played for a sucker . |
| 16 | All I wanted was to be left alone to get on with the job I 'd been trained for and loved . |
| 17 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 18 | By the time I moved in with Lucy and Joe , she 'd been divorced for a couple of years and her ex-husband had emigrated to America . |
| 19 | She 'd been divorced for 12 years . |
| 20 | He 'd been fined for having a dangerous vehicle . |
| 21 | ‘ We 'd been told for years how generous they would be , but when we challenged them , they had nothing for us . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He 'd been criticised for selecting amateur crews — some said it was too tough for office workers , bakers and bank clerks . |
| 24 | In her days as a schoolteacher she 'd been known for the quickness of her wit and her clarity of thought . |
| 25 | ‘ He 'd been held for four months . |
| 26 | He 'd been held for eleven days . |
| 27 | people who 'd been expelled for cannabis , |
| 28 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |
| 29 | Fringe took up his position alongside with familiarity and eagerness , an athlete doing what he 'd been bred for , and enjoyed . |
| 30 | The third she found broken , knocked over on to its side , the water dripping from a puddle on the windowsill on to a seat below and through that on to the floor , and the flowers scattered and brown-edged , as if they 'd been picked for their beauty and freshness by a little girl and then loosed regardlessly on the path from her sticky hands as she ran off to do something else . |