Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [adv] [been] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt foolish that I had n't been prepared for the fact that his skin would be so bad or his teeth so deteriorated . |
| 2 | Alison was n't keen to take hers , but I managed to persuade her , pointing out that since I had n't been asked for any more money these were almost certainly aspirins . |
| 3 | I had not been prepared for the volume of decisions I had to make . |
| 4 | I had not been prepared for a walk across a wasteland under a hot white sun . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've certainly been criticised for that . |
| 6 | I 've never been forgiven for that . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ There have been certain views about Nigel all the time and I 've sometimes been criticised for not playing him . |
| 8 | I have now been retired for nearly five and a half years . |
| 9 | ‘ I have always been prepared for that . |
| 10 | ‘ I was a millionaire almost overnight about ten years ago so I have never been motivated for money . |
| 11 | She has also been optimised for racing with a Kevlar sail wardrobe . |
| 12 | She has often been criticised for not doing , or doing imperfectly , things she was not trying to do . |
| 13 | ‘ Tommy , you 've just been cautioned for the murder of … ‘ |
| 14 | She had n't been prepared for the way poetry came into this fitting together of parts , Shall I believe that unsubstantial Death is amorous , and that the lean abhorrèd monster keeps Thee here in dark to be his paramour , she recited in her head , as O'Hara climbed on top and humped her beneath the rude unshaded bulb . |
| 15 | The girl had n't been born into this archiac world ; she had n't been prepared for a lover who was demanding and possessive , as Nicolo must have been . |
| 16 | Their daughter , Carla , nearly five now , looked as if she had n't been washed for days . |
| 17 | She also made a handsome donation although she had not been asked for money . |
| 18 | Although she had not been prepared for his barrage of questions and had answered them almost truculently , she had made Nicky think twice about her simply because she seemed more direct and independent than most of the girls he knew . |
| 19 | But she had not been prepared for the intensity of her response . |
| 20 | She had not been kissed for over two years and it was magical ; she was feeling it deeply , listening with everything in her but not remembering , because other kisses had not been like this . |
| 21 | As a subscriber to Marxism Today , Robyn had suffered occasional qualms of guilt because she did n't cycle to work instead of driving , but she had never been attacked for owning a foreign car before . |
| 22 | That was an intervention from her conscience but she had never been known for obstinacy in the past , and it was puzzling to account , really , for her awkward persistence about Grace . |
| 23 | She had only been daunted for a moment , however . |
| 24 | If you have not been called for interview within four weeks of the closing date of , please assume that your application has been unsuccessful . |
| 25 | I refer to your recent application for the above position and regret to advise that you have not been selected for interview . |
| 26 | She 's already been picked for the Jack Gannon , that 's the eighteen to twenty-one group . |
| 27 | We 've just been overcharged for this sandwich . |
| 28 | In answer to the second part of my hon. Friend 's question about population planning assistance to the former Soviet Union , although we have not been asked for such help , last week I agreed that £2 million-worth of medical aid should be spent in the republics of the former Soviet Union . |
| 29 | We will probably have to prove that we have not been paid for the consignment . |
| 30 | Graham Sharpe , spokesman for Hills , who cut the second favourite , Double Dutch , from 7-1 to 6-1 and Royal Square from 16-1 to 10-1 yesterday , countered by saying : ‘ We have often been criticised for including in our ante-post lists horses that trainers later said were never intended runners . |