Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [vb pp] for [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After I had been criticised for employing ‘ Lady Merchiston ’ and ‘ your ladyship ’ , I finally found that compromise which she accepted . |
| 2 | In what remains one of the most touching and compassionate statements of his flamboyant career , The Doc told waiting newsmen ‘ I 've been punished for falling in love . |
| 3 | Even now , the only substantial reason I have been given for stopping the work , is that BW themselves propose to upgrade the towpath along the whole length . |
| 4 | I have been criticised for coming down on the side of the second alternative . |
| 5 | I have been criticised for doing a job that is irrelevant in a society in which so many are struggling . |
| 6 | The conditional bail had been granted after she had been arrested for shouting ‘ scab ’ at working miners . |
| 7 | After she had been arrested for playing the two-backed beast with Culpepper — and me , though I was n't caught , but there again that 's another tale — the king 's guards came to take her whilst she was staying at Hampton Court . |
| 8 | Here you will carry out all of the tasks you have been trained for including general ship 's duties . |
| 9 | We 've been criticised for bringing him in so late but we tried to bring him in earlier . |
| 10 | ‘ We 've been criticised for saying that all children under five should have books in the home . |
| 11 | In particular , they have been censured for failing sufficiently to take into account the needs of local people . |
| 12 | The basic view is best expressed by Skinner himself : ‘ A person disposed to act because he has been reinforced for acting may feel the conditions of his body at such a time and call it ‘ felt purpose' ’ , but what behaviourism rejects is the causal efficacy of that feeling . ’ |
| 13 | He feels he has been punished for looking after his customers . |
| 14 | Most of the population have welcomed Mr Mladenov 's reforms , although he has been criticised for leaving some of Mr Zhivkov 's supporters in prominent positions . |
| 15 | He has been fined for exposing a wrong that England and Pakistan seemed happier keeping under the carpet . |
| 16 | It will seek to make maximum use of the units it has been given for offlining . |
| 17 | Just now it has been condemned for supporting Queer City , a collection of works by ‘ noted gay writers in New York City ’ ( this phrase is Chairman Frohnmayer 's own ) . |
| 18 | It has been taken for granted for a long time that criticism and the academy go naturally together , and a large pedagogic and publishing industry has been built on that assumption . |
| 19 | It has been taken for granted by most workers in this field that pigeons can home from unfamiliar starting points . |
| 20 | He 'd been criticised for selecting amateur crews — some said it was too tough for office workers , bakers and bank clerks . |
| 21 | He 'd been fined for having a dangerous vehicle . |
| 22 | At lunch , Dick Hansen decided that the pieces he could see ( because it had been disassembled for shipping ) from the pictures merited a closer look and so Dick called the owner to verify the price . |
| 23 | Plenty of that , no doubt , in this overgrown , untended woodland , even after it had been combed for firing by the urchins of the Foregate . |
| 24 | He had been criticized for failing to do enough to prevent a spate of serious attacks on foreign workers and asylum-seekers in the state , and had also been accused of working for the Stasi . |
| 25 | Shortly afterwards his father died : he felt that he had been punished for expecting too much . |
| 26 | He had joined up as Air Crew , and for several weeks had walked around proudly with the white flash in his cap , denoting that he had been selected for flying . |
| 27 | It agreed with the police that he had been arrested for cycling without due care and attention and that this had been sufficiently communicated to him . |
| 28 | Ever since the Pill revolution of the sixties , it 's been taken for granted that the only obstacle to women 's enthusiasm for heterosexual sex — fear of pregnancy — has been removed . |
| 29 | He 's been criticised for toying with big ideas ( such as the power of multinationals to destroy a community , in Local Hero ) , then dropping them in favour of Ealingesque whimsy . |