Example sentences of "[vb infin] [been] [verb] [adv] for the " in BNC.
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1 | Y'see , ‘ Eyes Do n't Lie ’ is so blatantly aware of current fashions Donny could well have been created specifically for the job by a record mogul Frankenstein . |
2 | Because private accommodation is usually paid a month at a time , as compared to a term in advance in halls of residence , it 's often tempting to lull oneself into a false sense of secure finances , spending money that should have been put aside for the rent . |
3 | Such trading emporia may have been established purely for the profit of the king and the servicing of his estates . |
4 | That hard-fought win might have been deemed enough for the season , but his French owner was keen to run her little battler ( bred in France ) in the top French jumping event — in which he had finished second three years earlier — and so three months after the Gold Cup , when he might have thought himself to have earned a summer holiday , Mandarin was despatched to Paris . |
5 | She had never liked Mona Rigby — who would n't have been chosen twice for the coveted role if the staff had known as much about her as did Brenda — and she was n't sure that she really liked Miss Foley . |