Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [vb pp] for [det] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never read or listen without being ready to enter a note in the appropriate place where space has been left for such a possibility . |
| 2 | A similar situation outside any other town would almost certainly have been used for such a purpose ; it would seem , therefore , that there was some special reason , at present unknown , why this land was not so used at Rochester . |
| 3 | Annoyed that his cover might have been jeopardized for such a trivial reason , Coleman left Sasser 's office with the intention of coding an immediate complaint to Donleavy — only to run into Micheal T. Hurley on the stairway . |
| 4 | It was probably the first time he had been asked for such a drink , despite his long years of service . |
| 5 | This is as true in any detective novel as it is in scientific research or investigative journalism , and in supposing that the test-tube fusion idea had been overlooked for half a century we are already repeating a media ‘ factoid ’ that is incorrect . |