Example sentences of "been [verb] for that " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are peaceful people , too , and many of them have been persecuted for that love of peace : Arthur Raistrick , Yorkshire Dalesman and the greatest living Dales historian , was imprisoned as a pacifist during the First World War , while in earlier times , the Quakers led by William Penn fled to America where they founded Pennsylvania , the capital city of which is Philadelphia , the city of brotherly love . |
| 2 | I 've never been forgiven for that . ’ |
| 3 | The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving . |
| 4 | ‘ I have always been prepared for that . |
| 5 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 6 | I have been looking for that ever since I first became involved in politics . |
| 7 | I 've been looking for that all week ! |
| 8 | I think to do that erm to chairman , to define the Greater York area then to ten miles that would of course require a consistent calculation of the housing need requirement both the local need element and the hundred percent migration element which arises within that ten mile er area , to be consistent with erm the rest of the policy , and of course that calculation erm that consistent calculation er has not been done for that area . |
| 9 | Er , but the interesting , the interesting thing is that they are prepared to pay and yet this obsession this obsession with this ideology that the only way you can get you can go forward in in terms of er placing this this country in any economic status in the way it may have been and er is is to privatisation of V A T. Chairman I look forward to the day when when the very air and this has been said for that we breathe will either be privatised or more important they 'll stick a bloody V A T on it . |
| 10 | Oh I 'm gon na start going , I have n't been swimming for that long and I 've been saying off and on oh I must go , I must go , but when it 's so cold outside you do n't feel like coming out with all wet hair and all that |
| 11 | Bomber Command itself was situated at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire and from there the orders were sent out every day to each Group Headquarters , indicating which target had been selected for that night 's operation , and the Groups then sent on the information to the Commanding Officers at each of the air fields , or ‘ out-stations ’ . |
| 12 | So it 's really settling in and I 've been waiting for that to happen . ’ |
| 13 | I 've been waiting for that featherbrained bird to buzz off , ’ said the frog . |
| 14 | that 's what I 've been waiting for that ten , ten do it again |
| 15 | She 's been going for that ra is it radium ? |
| 16 | Sparc has never been used for that before though Sun ( UX No 399 ) , and now C.Itoh Electronics are believed to be building one . |
| 17 | A value of £3 million has been used for that purpose . |
| 18 | It has never been used for that purpose , although Sir Anthony Eden contemplated invoking it for government propaganda during the Suez crisis , and during the Falklands recapture it provided the legal basis for the Government 's use of BBC transmitters on Ascension Island to beam propaganda broadcasts at Argentina . |
| 19 | The money has not been used for that purpose . |
| 20 | Well over 5,000 units of quota have now been entered for that sale , date to be specified later , but almost certainly in April . |
| 21 | However , the know-how fund is doing extremely good work throughout the former Soviet republics , where we have been asked for that help , as it is in the rest of central and eastern Europe . |
| 22 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 23 | I understand that the Government have not been negotiating for that . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've certainly been criticised for that . |
| 25 | No not really , no Could you of chosen erm where to have the house or did they have some , that had been left for that purpose ? |
| 26 | Has an application been submitted for that purpose ? |
| 27 | Has an application been submitted for that purpose ? |
| 28 | She said we are not employed , we are , so I said oh , what 's the difference , you pay for that , you 've been paid for that , I said , because I promise you can , you can go . |
| 29 | Because I recko , I reckon they must of been paid for that because Maury has n't been phoning up and saying oh you have n't paid it ! |
| 30 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |