Example sentences of "[pron] have been [vb pp] [adv] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Within minutes the car was free , and before I could thank the young farmer I 'd been invited back for a cup of tea and some hot broth . |
| 2 | I wish you and I had been tied together for ever ! ’ |
| 3 | Mat. 's door , in my own mind I had been slung out for encouraging unseemly behaviour from a male patient and was miserably working on the choice of my next career . |
| 4 | I realized that this was the same place Brian and I had been held in for a week in May 1988 before going to the Pit . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been fed up for the last few years and people have been telling me I am in danger of wasting my time . |
| 6 | But , by and large , and Wanda was an exception , all the things in life that I 've most enjoyed have been the things that I 've been paid really very little for , and most of the things that I 've been paid most for have been the least interesting . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been arrested twice for blowing the horn , ’ he explained . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , ’ he said , ‘ I 've been let down for tonight . |
| 9 | I have been lost here for eight years . ’ |
| 10 | Edit the RDBI configuration file and include the name of an ORACLE account which has been created solely for the use of the RDBI transfer program . |
| 11 | However you organise your checking routine , it is crucial to present written work which has been checked over for spelling . |
| 12 | As far as I know computers have not yet been brought to bear on the Synoptic Problem which has been tossed around for a century . |
| 13 | For example , if you are looking for something for your in-foal mare , choose a supplement which has been made specifically for this purpose such as Medi Equus stud formula . |
| 14 | The beginnings of this idea emerge well from a passage in The Lord of the Rings which has been singled out for especially ferocious criticism : the parting of Treebeard from Celeborn and Galadriel in The Return of the King , p. 259 : |
| 15 | I enclose two copies of a contract which has been drawn up for the tape . |
| 16 | Welcome back : Attempts to encourage otters to return to the River Thames are being aided by a man-made home which has been designed specially for them . |
| 17 | Artcare only use quality nylon zips , each of which has been designed especially for a particular portfolio ; and only square arch mechanisms are used making presentation much neater . |
| 18 | The main service on offer is the Schwab One International account which has been designed especially for international investors . |
| 19 | In sum about 25,000 people were able to appreciate the live transmission of Un ballo in maschera direct from the stage of the Opéra- Bastille , tickets for which has been sold out for months . |
| 20 | Any private business which has been set down for consideration at Seven o'clock on an allotted day shall , instead of being considered as provided by Standing Orders , be considered at the conclusion of the proceedings on the Bil on that day , and paragraph ( 1 ) of Standing Order No. 14 ( Exempted business ) shall apply to the private business for a period of three hours from the conclusion of the proceedings on the Bill or , if those proceedings are concluded before Ten o'clock , for a period equal to the time between Seven o'clock and the conclusion of those proceedings . |
| 21 | A common problem in geographical information systems ( GIS ) , and one which has been known about for many years in the context of choropleth mapping , is that of producing maps from population data aggregated over selected arbitrary areal units . |
| 22 | This gives the authorities the ability to disregard any part of a transaction that serves no commercial purpose , but which has been inserted purely for the purpose of avoiding tax . |
| 23 | In 1867 the pet dog ( no name , no breed ) is killed by poison which has been laid down for rats . |
| 24 | It proved to be a surprisingly accurate account of what in the event did happen , and is outlined here to illustrate the way in which , in one corner of Oxfordshire , changes which had been argued over for a decade could be effected in a relatively short time . |
| 25 | Wycliffe went through to the little room which had been set aside for callers . |
| 26 | The only substantial aid received by the government so far had been $300,000,000 from the United States agreed by the US Congress in May 1990 [ see p. 37450 ] , which had been gradually disbursed , except for $50,000,000 which had been set aside for clearing debt arrears . |
| 27 | Where discovery methods were applied in schools which had been designed specifically for child-centred learning , the change was even more apparent . |
| 28 | All the ships , large and small , which had been held up for days past , had now unfurled their sails and were putting to sea . |
| 29 | But Lanfranc seems not even to have noticed that the community still followed , however imperfectly , the order of monastic life which had been laid down for all English monasteries a hundred years earlier , of which two copies from the pre-Conquest library at Christ Church , Canterbury , still survive . |
| 30 | Some of these files contain sections of program instructions ( for example , LIB ) which have been split off for convenience . |