Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] have been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Bell said : ‘ My programme has been set for many weeks and every day is tied up . ’ |
| 2 | My plan had been to climb for hundreds of beautiful feet on one of Lakeland 's fine mountain crags with one of Lakeland 's fine mountain climbers , but it did n't happen . |
| 3 | I will store the incident with the others ; this one feels like the straw my back had been waiting for . |
| 4 | Is the Chancellor aware that not so long ago I met a chap in Blackpool who said to me , ’ When you see that Chancellor of the Duchy , tell him that I want to give him a piece of my mind : not only is the poll tax three times higher than the rates , but I have lost my job , my wife has been waiting for an operation for two years , my daughter has lost her maternity grant through this Tory Government and my son has lost his income support — so when you see the chairman of the Tory party , will you tell him that I want to meet him to discuss this matter at the top of the Blackpool Tower ? ’ |
| 5 | My purpose has been to account for the rise and consolidation of amateurism rather than to catalogue its contemporary decline . |
| 6 | Questions range from the extreme — ‘ My client 's been arrested for murder ’ — to the mundane — ‘ I have just received a mailshot from another firm which is quite appalling . ’ |
| 7 | She showed up in her Rolls in the car park of the supermarket , and , although there was a lot of nodding and smiling and remarks about coincidences , it was pretty clear that her presence had been arranged for someone 's benefit . |
| 8 | Its presence has been seen for 2,000 years throughout the acrimonious purgings of innocent human life in the witchcraft genocides ; through the long systematic persecution then culmination in horrific holocausting of Jesus 's own people — the tribe of Judah . |
| 9 | Their response has been to aim for legislative repeal or reform . |
| 10 | Unilateralists felt that their case had been made for them ; and they became more determined than ever to get rid of nuclear weapons altogether . |
| 11 | Schools that have had an HMI inspection have found that much of their work has been done for them — though it is difficult to imagine that schools will therefore be applying in large numbers for a full inspection ! |
| 12 | ‘ The Law Society is proud that a solicitor and member of its Council has been chosen for the important post of Chair of the Equal Opportunities Commission . |
| 13 | Andrew MacKinlay , the Labour MP who has campaigned on the matter , has highlighted the case of one widow , now aged 98 , who only recently steeled herself to admit to her family that her husband had been executed for cowardice . |
| 14 | It had long been a controversial issue and its approval had been delayed for years because of worries about the environmental consequences and the cost of the project . |
| 15 | Even her departure had been delayed for weeks for want of the funds necessary to fit out her ship and escort . |
| 16 | Their method has been designed for recovering a GEM from water — not easy because any bacteria in it are much less abundant than , say in soil . |
| 17 | Some semantic data-base models such as Taxis also provide this capability and their expressiveness has been examined for text [ 1 ] . |
| 18 | Amiss recalled a discreet chamber tucked away at the back of the building which appeared from its decor and its furniture to have been designed for the entertainment of a compliant lady . |
| 19 | Their arrival had been delayed for a fortnight after Gen. Farah Aydid claimed on July 7 that an aircraft with UN markings bringing food aid had also carried from Nairobi military equipment and counterfeit money for his rival , Somalia 's transitional President , Ali Mahdi Mohammed . |
| 20 | copies of reports prepared for the purposes of the concentration and from which information has been taken for the purposes of the Form CO ; |
| 21 | Its history has been written for Paris by the novelist Zola . |
| 22 | 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 ’ . |
| 23 | So , when an orphaned leopard cub was found after her mother had been killed for her skin , the infant was brought to him in the hope that he could rear it . |
| 24 | Miss Gregg told detectives her mother had been waiting for the handyman to call at the time of her death . |
| 25 | Now these companies have large grants already and a 2.3 per cent increase is a very large sum of money compared with , for example , a small theatre whose grant is half this increase and whose subsidy has been frozen for 1993/94 . |
| 26 | Duncan , whose health had been failing for several years , died in West Park , Elgin , 23 May 1863 . |
| 27 | Leszek Balcerowicz , the Finance Minister and deputy Prime Minister , announced on Aug. 5 that he would resign after the parliamentary elections planned for October , saying that his decision had been made for family reasons . |
| 28 | As he wrote the words , he knew quite well that his grave had been dug for him the day before , once a reprieve had been refused . |
| 29 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 30 | His mind had been prepared for an impossible radiance and it had taken time to absorb a new set of signals . |