Example sentences of "[adv] he be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile he was held for seventeen months in prison in Oxford , where a debate was staged in which Cranmer and bishops Latimer and Ridley were pitted against selected scholars from Oxford and Cambridge . |
| 2 | Yesterday he was banned for 18 months . |
| 3 | Now he 's set for another huge windfall from his topselling solo album . |
| 4 | But even he was blasted for his portrayal of the evil inquisitor Torquemada . |
| 5 | Eventually he was rewarded for his long and faithful service by being placed in the heavens as the constellation of Aquarius . |
| 6 | If Vecchi was the imitation hospital attendant , then he was booked for some free electricity at the State 's expense . |
| 7 | ‘ Yes … then he was driven for , he estimates , about half an hour . |
| 8 | Time and again he is savaged for speaking on subjects about which his critics claim he knows nothing . |
| 9 | More recently he was criticized for failing to exploit possibilities created by the improvement in church-state relations at the time of the Russian Orthodox millennium in 1988 [ see p. 36040 ] , although this was partly excused by commentators on the grounds of his serious ill health . |