Example sentences of "[adv] been [verb] for [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Female choice has only properly been tested for in the case of one such character , the long tail of a species of widow bird , and it was confirmed to be operating . |
| 2 | It turned out that he was a heavy drinker and smoker , who had not been running for about the last 20 years . |
| 3 | Later , when they had not been paid for by the defendant , the plaintiff brought an action for payment of the sum due against the defendant . |
| 4 | The CPRE believes that enough land has already been provided for in the Structure Plans of the south east to meet these requirements and that there is in fact a 38 per cent over-supply of land . |
| 5 | ‘ They had just been reconciled for about the 18th time and when work forced them apart he started on the vodka . |
| 6 | In recent years prisons have accumulated increasing numbers of mentally disordered people who at one time would probably been cared for in the old asylums . |