Example sentences of "[vb infin] been [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Piggy is short-sighted ; and the spectacles he would have been prescribed for this condition could not possibly have been used as burning glasses . |
| 2 | Brian Inglis , a writer on the paranormal , said the spoof could have been damaging for those who had had ghostly experiences . |
| 3 | It is also guaranteeing mortgages at 1 per cent below the normal interest rate , for endowment or pension-linked policies , on several of the houses up for sale , an interesting and innovative service for would-be bidders ( mortgage surveys will already have been undertaken for these houses ) . |
| 4 | In any case , lest anyone think the Royal Society of Chemistry had pandered to Elena Ceauşescu 's vanity , he assured the public that ‘ the fellowship was presented at a ceremony no grander than would have been arranged for any other spouse of a head of state . ’ |
| 5 | She had brushed aside the congratulations of her gynaecologist when he said , ‘ Most women would have been screaming for some kind of relief long before now . ’ |
| 6 | Another possibility is that the gas density may have been overestimated for some reason . |
| 7 | The keys must have been lost for some time . |
| 8 | In less than five minutes , many hopes of success will have been dashed for another year . |
| 9 | Mama was rehearsing , that was all ; but it should perhaps have been kept for some other time . |
| 10 | Joe is keen to emphasise that the upstream sales would not have been concluded for less than full value . |
| 11 | She could have been kidnapped for all I know . |
| 12 | He must have been gouging for half an hour when an idea seemed to strike him . |
| 13 | The common link between all three exhibitors is Hartlepool and its Art Club and many of the works here might almost have been destined for those annual sorties into the Hartlepool Marina and the town 's burgeoning renaissance . |
| 14 | Well he must have been transferred for some reason or other . |
| 15 | Sir Patrick Mayhew must have been hoping for some winners and losers , as he considers how to kick-start his talks process . |
| 16 | ‘ The irony is that I did n't realise till Christmas , when I knew I loved you , that it was someone like you I should have been looking for all these years since . ’ |
| 17 | Saying that they were playing very deep , but Im sure Wallace would have been looking for those balls and giving the player in posession that option . |
| 18 | Athelstan studied him carefully , rather concerned , for by now Sir John would usually have been shouting for more claret or sack . |
| 19 | Otherwise , if place could have been found for these minor poets and playwrights , not to mention jumped-up journalists who also figured all too prominently , surely a few sentences could have been spared for the man he himself had described as the one working-class writer who remained working-class — the man whom the Sentinel had called ‘ the poet of work ’ . |
| 20 | When they gave the measure their final approval , ministers arbitrarily changed the legal basis of the legislation in such a way that unanimous voting would have been required for any further tightening of pollution standards . |
| 21 | Quinn gave him the car , a Volvo saloon , and its registration number ; both men surmised , rightly , that the plates would have been changed for that meeting , then changed back again . |
| 22 | The programme should have been broadcast for most of last month as well . |
| 23 | The deceased loved one would have been left for all to come and see , and grieve over , and most importantly to say goodbye to . |
| 24 | A similar situation outside any other town would almost certainly have been used for such a purpose ; it would seem , therefore , that there was some special reason , at present unknown , why this land was not so used at Rochester . |
| 25 | In fact , some small part of the new funds might indeed have been used for this purpose as the societies ' balance sheet shows , but it will be only a very small proportion of the total funds received . |
| 26 | These would have been used for both flavouring and for medicinal purposes . |
| 27 | It is said that it could not have been used for any other purpose … |
| 28 | Annoyed that his cover might have been jeopardized for such a trivial reason , Coleman left Sasser 's office with the intention of coding an immediate complaint to Donleavy — only to run into Micheal T. Hurley on the stairway . |
| 29 | The two ladies in attendance on the Queen had been banished to a corner of the solar , where they sat talking quietly , half hidden by a carved wooden screen , but only the slightest effort would have been needed for either of them to overhear the interrogation going on by the fireplace . |
| 30 | The rabbit might as well have been stuffed for all the movement it made , and I could see that it definitely was staring right at me , its little eyes not blinking , its tiny nose not sniffing , its ears untwitched . |