Example sentences of "he had been [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was not in the premier division of drugs dealers in Belfast and police have no reason to contradict his assertion that he had been involved for a short time , ’ the Crown lawyer added . |
| 2 | He had been criticized for failing to do enough to prevent a spate of serious attacks on foreign workers and asylum-seekers in the state , and had also been accused of working for the Stasi . |
| 3 | Latterly , he had been criticized for being more concerned about " restoring dignity to politics " and strengthening Slovenia 's Catholic and conservative traditions than about solving the economic problems resulting from communist rule and independence . |
| 4 | He had been earmarked for senior management and his posting to the US was intended to serve a double purpose . |
| 5 | His hair , untended , curled thick as a dog 's at his neck under a shapeless wool cap , and his mind was turned patently inwards ; far from seeking , or even thinking of the men from whom he had been parted for six weeks . |
| 6 | He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low . |
| 7 | Demirel had previously pledged to remove President Özal from power , but on Oct. 24 , possibly influenced by the narrowness of his party 's victory over the ANAP , he declared that Özal might continue as President — an office to which he had been elected for a seven-year term in October 1989 . |
| 8 | In theory he had been prepared for it all along , but that it should happen now , right now … |
| 9 | By now he was of an age to make his own decisions , the first of which was to marry the English girl to whom he had been engaged for two years . |
| 10 | The most recent outstanding event in Jim 's distinguished career was the publication of his definitive catalogue of the collections of Christ Church , Oxford , on which he had been engaged for several years , coinciding with the opening of the new galleries to contain them . |
| 11 | He was gathering data for a book about world metro systems , a task on which he had been engaged for years . |
| 12 | Shortly after liberation in 1945 , he married Peggy Whitall , to whom he had been engaged for seven years . |
| 13 | He had been gone for a long time . |
| 14 | There was nothing to spare unless he used the rupee that he had been given for his own food . |
| 15 | He had been treated for nine months in one hospital and two months in another , and had returned home with recurrent dislocation of one knee and an un-united fracture of the other thigh . |
| 16 | The possibility that he had been killed for some reason connected with his father 's letters did not occur to Derek . |
| 17 | Shortly afterwards his father died : he felt that he had been punished for expecting too much . |
| 18 | It was probably the first time he had been asked for such a drink , despite his long years of service . |
| 19 | I remembered the dated way he had of addressing people — though he had been sacked for more serious matters . |
| 20 | He had joined up as Air Crew , and for several weeks had walked around proudly with the white flash in his cap , denoting that he had been selected for flying . |
| 21 | Not for the first time Rostov wondered why he had been selected for this particular mission . |
| 22 | He had been employed for only three weeks . |
| 23 | It was true he had had no stomach for the pallid lamb chops that he had been offered for lunch . |
| 24 | But Maher could not ride Craganour in the Derby as he had been claimed for Lord Rosebery 's Prue , and the favourite was partnered by the American jockey Johnny Reiff . |
| 25 | He had been stationed for a time in a war hospital , once a lunatic asylum . |
| 26 | Bissett 's difficulty lay in the time he had been allocated for his paper on the theoretical dimensions of the device . |
| 27 | Although he had been immersed for days in Ridley 's exotic tale , searching out the coiling roots of Coleridge 's Kubla Khan , and although he knew intellectually that so many of these stories and poems were impregnated with an unconscious symbolism which later adventures into the human psyche were to make so much more explicit , he was temperamentally incapable of seeing the hidden meaning within this laborious passing from the ‘ dungeon of lust ’ into the pellucidly clear air of the mountains of Tasgi where voices shouted in exultation . |
| 28 | If he had been briefed for a mission in which he did not participate , he would then have been kept incommunicado until he did finally leave . |
| 29 | It agreed with the police that he had been arrested for cycling without due care and attention and that this had been sufficiently communicated to him . |
| 30 | He said he had been paid for the picture , but admitted that ‘ in order to entice bidders ’ he had agreed with Sotheby 's that payment would be spread over three instalments . |