Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | What was happening to my body — not only the changes brought about by puberty , but the fact that the clothes it wore and the food it consumed were chosen for it by someone else — was a metaphor for what was happening to me as a whole person . |
| 4 | The side which lost were reprimanded for their weakness ; the side which won could have anything they wanted from new horses to new leaders . |
| 5 | That is an analysis by the officers of what additional funds they felt was needed for them to fulfil their statutory duties . |
| 6 | But he always liked being asked for his opinion : it made him feel important and he had never understood why people needed to go on assertiveness courses . |
| 7 | Air deal fell through and no date had been fixed for them to be restarted . |
| 8 | We stood in the doorway for a while until our eyes adjusted to the darkness and then , stooping low to avoid the worst of the smoke , we made our way through the crowd to a space that had been cleared for us close to the fire . |
| 9 | He presumed they had been written for him to use as references for his next employer , but he tore them up angrily . |
| 10 | It gave Patrick the feeling that their every move had been planned for them by Comrade Ceauŝescu himself . |
| 11 | Those fantasies that had protected her from real life , that beautiful , unpolluted world of the Lock with its seals and its childhood memories of her father and that other glossy , television world that she imagined people like Simon inhabited , had been ruined for her for ever . |
| 12 | I took the ferry back to Picton , drove to Christchurch , and moved in to the flat in the university Hall of Residence which had been reserved for me . |
| 13 | The director had told her most of the cast and crew were staying in the same hotel , and a room had been reserved for her there , too . |
| 14 | From all that he heard , it was clear that Gaddafi 's position had been secured for him in a way that his palace guard and secret police could never have managed on their own . |
| 15 | ‘ I certainly do , ’ Frau Nordern answered , as if the room had been done for her . |
| 16 | She appreciated Doc Threadneedle 's handiwork , but also she learned to love what had been done for her before the biowizard came along . |
| 17 | Ken told the story as though it had been scripted for him for Hancock 's Half Hour . |
| 18 | The Social Security Advisory Committee had been asked for its solution to the argument about when men and women should retire . |
| 19 | had been asked for his advice , had recommended someone , and been told to approach him . |
| 20 | Mr Fallon had been asked for his help in December by worried Darlington firemen . |
| 21 | He reminded them of how their predecessors had been punished for their wickedness and repeatedly urged obedience to the commands of the Church . |
| 22 | Compaore on Jan. 9 ordered the rehabilitation of over 4,000 people who had been punished for their political or trades union activities since 1983 , when Capt. Thomas Sankara took power . |
| 23 | His wife now feared that they had been punished for his presumption . |
| 24 | The stick concealed a rifle microphone , which , after much debate — over the alternative merits of contacts , spikes , tubes , any number of possible bugs — had been manufactured for him . |
| 25 | I was surprised , therefore , to discover that quite a busy programme had been arranged for me . |
| 26 | The well-tested welfare organisation swung into gear , as the Welfare Officer once again climbed into her car to go and speak to the wife and assure her that temporary accommodation had been arranged for her and the family , and that the move from one house to another would be made as smooth as possible . |
| 27 | Maha was a lushly beautiful woman who had left the husband who had been arranged for her . |
| 28 | For twenty years all these details had been arranged for her . |
| 29 | She showed up in her Rolls in the car park of the supermarket , and , although there was a lot of nodding and smiling and remarks about coincidences , it was pretty clear that her presence had been arranged for someone 's benefit . |
| 30 | It was a short hop for Foucard to suggest that as her colleague was such a dull man it was unlikely the flat had been searched for something belonging to him , more likely that the hunt was for something belonging to Rain or Oliver . |