Example sentences of "been [verb] a [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , yes , but erm , you know , I have had to say to the chaps , one of them came in and he said he 'd been spoiled down at the cedar and I said oh well , I , I 've been cooking a breakfast for Neil of course by the operation of sods law , Neil suddenly goes off the idea of having breakfast , so I find myself cooking breakfast for this other lump , who is as idol and selfish as anybody ever met in all the born days , and I said to him just recently , I said , I , I ca n't get up and do breakfast 's in the morning any more , well he says he come 's down and does he 's own , you see they can when they feel that they want too . |
| 2 | They were ragged and cowed , but they had been given a bed for the night and an enforced bath . |
| 3 | The latest goal to Brann was given on a dubious penalty in overtime and there should probably have been given a free-kick for handling — for — Lyn just before the last Brann goal — the ref admitted this after seeing the whole situation on video-tape . |
| 4 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 5 | Two senior boys have expressed an interest in attending a course to enable them to participate more in the running of the club [ the J.G.V.A. has agreed to pay their fees ] a volunteer Diane Prior has joined the staff , Laura Brown has been given a date for mini bus driving test , two staff members have attended a Youth Work Conference for South West Edinburgh — G. Lightheart has ordered new equipment . |
| 6 | Two senior boys have expressed an interest in attending a course to enable them to participate more in the running of the club ( the J.G.V.A. has agreed to pay their fees ) a volunteer Diane Prior has joined the staff , Laura Brown has been given a date for mini bus driving test , two staff members have attended a Youth Work Conference for South West Edinburgh — G. Lightheart has ordered new equipment . |
| 7 | As from two years ago , all students entering technical secondary school have been given a slide-rule for use in classes and subsequently at work . |
| 8 | CYCLOSPORIN-A , a drug that can prevent the body rejecting bone-marrow transplants , has been given a licence for general use in Britain . |
| 9 | Barcelona gold medallists Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent have been given a boost for their 1996 Olympic hopes … by an American sportswear firm . |
| 10 | He should have been given a medal for trying to catch a car vandal . |
| 11 | Thompson was backed by former hard-man Liverpool colleague Tommy Smith , who said Thompson should have been given a medal for what he did at Anfield , not the sack . |
| 12 | Sheffield 's Fidel Castro Smith has been given a reward for going so close to beating Henry Wharton in their exciting super-middleweight fight at Leeds United 's Elland Road this week . |
| 13 | A JUDGE nicknamed Zorro has been given a wigging for kissing a pretty court usher . |
| 14 | ‘ On the contrary , he said advertisements had their good points ; he had written a poem about Steyr automobiles and been given a car for it . |
| 15 | Since 1970 they have been given an allowance for secretarial and research assistance . |
| 16 | 17 You 've been given an award for your services to natural history . |
| 17 | The otter and its haunts are now protected by law too and so this lovely animal has been given an opportunity for a new lease of life . |
| 18 | She had already been given an operation for biliary atresia which is designed to unblock or bypass the blockage leaving scar tissue which is more likely to bleed . |
| 19 | Alexandra Palace and Park , the latest company willing to take up the baton , has been administering a relaunch for the premises through the offices of Bizat , a genial exhibitions and catering specialist , who had been at the place only 11 weeks , in 1980 , when afire near the great organ gutted much of it and necessitated major reconstruction . |
| 20 | Her adopted father , Arthur Harrison , also of North Green , Staindrop , has been keeping a vigil for the daughter he has barely spoken to since she was 17 . |
| 21 | But if Berowne had been seeking a moment for further confidences it had disappeared . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been wanting a bike for ages , only Daddy has n't been able to manage it . ’ |
| 23 | yes , I got a bit tired out because erm somebody mentioned table tennis and I said oh I 've been wanting a game for years ! |
| 24 | He 's been writing a column for the Sunday Express , occupying the space most famously enjoyed by John Junor , the laird of Auchtermuchty . |
| 25 | Norwood , Massachusetts-based Microcom Inc reports that it has been granted a patent for the Microcom Networking Protocol Class 10 feature , called Aggressive Adaptive Packet Assembly : the feature improves data link transmission performance by pro-actively adapting the size of data packets to line conditions — MNP 10 enables modems to connect , stay connected and have the highest transmission possible , regardless of the line conditions . |
| 26 | Orchard had been granted a rent for his ‘ good and praiseworthy service and counsel ’ in 1475 , and he was engaged as a contractor for several parts of the college buildings , including the great west window of the chapel to his own ‘ portraiture ’ ( design ) . |
| 27 | The British egg industry had been made a scapegoat for food poisoning by the Government . |
| 28 | I do so because I believe she has been made a scapegoat for what happened . |
| 29 | The Boro 's second leading scorer felt he had been made a scapegoat for the home defeat by Watford . |
| 30 | A lunch with the Capo dello Squadro Anti-Terrorismo that he had been waiting a year for , a session with a good guy in the Guardia di Finanze , and a squash game with Dieter who was number two to the Legal Attaché , and he just did n't know whether he 'd be back before the Little League All Stars trip to Naples and the game against the Sixth Fleet which was the high point of the season which they played now courtesy of the Italian sunshine into late fall . |