Example sentences of "and [vb past] be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd moved over by the window and had been reaching for a chair , but now she stopped . |
| 2 | A phased return of responsibility from the army to the civilian police was begun in 1976 and had been completed for most of the region by early 1977 . |
| 3 | Both very meticulous players , they had fallen more than one hole behind and had been warned for slow play . |
| 4 | The inquest heard that Leonie had been seen regularly by her GP and had been referred for psychiatric treatment . |
| 5 | Later Seddon telephoned to tell me that a young man — actually a volunteer from the Metropolitan police — had duly appeared at Southend , and had been remanded for a week . |
| 6 | Another , a woman who was living , and had been living for many years in , in continuous adultery ! |
| 7 | Three additional parents reported that they worked on contract at nuclear sites and had been monitored for exposure to radiation before their child was diagnosed ( one father of a case , after conception ; one father of a control , before conception ; one mother of a control , before conception ) . |
| 8 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 9 | The twins had wandered out of the rectory garden and had been missing for twenty minutes . |
| 10 | Tim , from Great Sankey , was a dedicated fan of the club and had been shopping for an Everton strip on the day of the Bridge Street bombing . |
| 11 | The English had been fishing there for over a century , and had been settled for over fifty years , so they had a strong position for making the French give up any claims to settle there . |
| 12 | The plant , built in 1974 , had a poor safety record and had been closed for a two-year period following a failure in the control system in 1985 , and could no longer provide electricity at a competitive price . |
| 13 | This had a separate entrance and had been used for many purposes — the storage of deeds by the Wilts and Dorset Bank , prior to this by Mr. Peru , a solicitor , but when I was a small boy it had been leased to The Haunch of Venison Inn as a wine store and bottling plant . |
| 14 | Mr Waterworth worked for an agency and had been driving for the Fewston Transport Company , of Skipton , at the time of the tragedy . |
| 15 | If children had already married and had been provided for a will was not necessary . |
| 16 | In those days the paper had sold 5.25 million copies and had been respected for its powerful , picture-led campaigning journalism , its commitment to the Labour Party , and the chord it struck with its primarily working-class readership . |
| 17 | The new Defence Minister , understood to be a strong supporter of Saddam Hussein 's stance on Kuwait , had been Inspector General of the armed forces and previously a deputy Chief of Staff , and had been decorated for his service in commanding the First Army Special Corps during the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 18 | As an amateur jockey Pip has had eight National hunt wins this season and had been challenging for the Ladies Championship . |