Example sentences of "[Wh pn] have been [verb] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , who has been pressing for CUTS in interest rates , said the rise was ‘ disastrous . ’ |
| 2 | Hell , for a 60-year-old man who has been busted for drugs , received death threats from the Klan and had triple-bypass heart surgery , you look damn good , John . |
| 3 | Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff ! |
| 4 | Five people who 've been nominated for awards are not available to receive them from her Royal Highness . |
| 5 | There were some who had been destined for fighters , especially Meteors , who found themselves headed for a dreaded bomber tour . |
| 6 | In R. v. Jordan ( 1967 ) Jordan , who had been sentenced for offences under the Race Relations Act 1965 , applied for a writ of habeas corpus claiming that he had been convicted under an invalid law . |
| 7 | Later , a government-backed radio statement singled out alleged attempts by environmentalist to " frustrate " the timber industry in Sarawak , and deplored the fact that campaigners who had been arrested for crimes committed in the state were treated as " heroes and martyrs " by the environmental movement . |
| 8 | It never occurred to me that anyone who had been starving for years would feel an incredible , overwhelming urge to eat that was both physical and emotional . |
| 9 | Even more part of it than Rosie , who had been coming for years . |
| 10 | Even one would be good enough for there are riders who have been racing for years and have never gone well here . ’ |
| 11 | Salesmen from Harvard and other licensed dealers who have been interviewed for jobs at companies such as Barclays de Zoete Wedd , Greenwell Montague , and Kitcat & Aitken have sometimes felt an obligation to explain their present work position . |
| 12 | An MP who 's been campaigning for years to have the road improved said tonight that he 'll be pressing the government yet again to have it upgraded to a dual carriageway . |
| 13 | A farmer who 's been fighting for years to KEEP gypsies on his land has been given the go-ahead after a public inquiry . |