Example sentences of "they [vb past] be [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm a fool , she thought tearfully , knowing the very last vestiges of the shaky companionship they shared were gone for good . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family . |
| 4 | But then , when you said they 'd been gone for a couple of years … ’ |
| 5 | They 'd been gone for so long now . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | That is an analysis by the officers of what additional funds they felt was needed for them to fulfil their statutory duties . |
| 8 | TUBE passenger Jonathan Zito was stabbed to death in front of his brother just after they had been reunited for Christmas . |
| 9 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 10 | She was well aware that it would seem thoroughly feeble — if not downright pathetic — to refuse to accompany him to New York simply because they had been separated for almost five years . |
| 11 | When they had been seated for some time Titch said : ‘ I suppose you 've heard the news ? ’ |
| 12 | Items generated internally would be recorded once they had been authorised for issue . |
| 13 | They had been accepted for admission before the onset of dementia ( most sheltered housing associations would not accept a new tenant who was already showing evidence of dementia ) , but with increasing age in the sheltered housing population cases are likely to occur more frequently . |
| 14 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 15 | Bruce 's forces were defeated first in Methven wood by the English , and then beside Loch Tay by Comyn 's uncle , the Lord of Lorn The king 's sister and the Countess of Buchan who had crowned him were dragged out of sanctuary where they had been sent for safety , and exhibited in cages hanging from castle walls at Roxburgh and Berwick . |
| 16 | Uscfrea and Yffi died in infancy in Gaul among the Franks , where they had been sent for greater safety ( HE 11 , 20 ) . |
| 17 | They had been made for Maria by a Polish émigré , Floryan Wyspianski , a man in his early thirties , who had settled in Budapest after the war . |
| 18 | The eagle stared back at him proudly and without fear and Mr Wolski wondered how long he would be here in captivity , staring out at the same things year after year , his great wings never feeling the power and support of the wind , his talons never arcing forward and down as they did what they had been made for and struck at prey . |
| 19 | Yet they were now learning to kiss as if they had been made for one another , she thought in panic . |
| 20 | He presumed they had been written for him to use as references for his next employer , but he tore them up angrily . |
| 21 | His wife now feared that they had been punished for his presumption . |
| 22 | There was no evidence as to what the Perots ' attitude would have been if they had been asked for more than $2.5m. for Caliban . |
| 23 | As Middlemass ( 1979 , p. 443 ) remarks of the Act , the TUC ‘ could hardly have accepted such a reversal of the terms of politics as they had been understood for a generation . ’ |
| 24 | There they had been questioned for a long time , in a way which — Alice could see , watching Bert 's face as he told the tale — had not only impressed but sobered the two . |
| 25 | She had brought glasses and dishes from home , she said ; they had been boxed for many years too long . |
| 26 | More important is the fact that many of the draft 's boldest strokes would seem a lot more realistic if they had been destined for Mark Fisher and a Labour government . |
| 27 | The UAE news agency WAM reported that they had been expelled for " activities which harm relations between the two countries including the fabrication of false reports about the Sudanese community in the UAE " . |
| 28 | Oxford 's bluff worked for some time , but when by late 1713 the Jacobites finally realised they had been taken for a ride , they began to look to Bolingbroke for support . |
| 29 | In November 1286 Robert of Everingham , hereditary warden of Sherwood Forest , and ten others were released on bail from prison in Nottingham , to which they had been committed for venison offences . |
| 30 | They had been admitted for the surgical treatment of the following conditions : group e : benign disease ( comprising patients with benign colorectal tumours ( two ) , plus those with chronic cholecystitis ; group f : inflammatory bowel disease ( all patients had moderately active ulcerative colitis with diffuse involvement of the whole colon , but no evidence at laparotomy or on liver function tests of hepatic damage ) ; group g : colorectal carcinoma . |