Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [vb pp] for [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 2 | It was good to be able to demonstrate that I did know something about handling animals even though I had been qualified for only a few months . |
| 3 | I think I can say that during my career most of the things I 've decided ought to be done , I 've got done , but I 've done them in very different ways to other people and sometimes I 've been criticised for not going out and grabbing the headlines . |
| 4 | She said : ‘ I have been used for too long , I must do things for myself now . |
| 5 | ‘ I mean , you 've been indulged for too long . |
| 6 | This time she had been sent for urgently because Nigel had taken a turn for the worse — in fact , had nearly died after his peritonitis operation . |
| 7 | And she cried out as a cascade of fireworks seemed to explode deep within her , before their bodies , now moving in perfect unison , recaptured the fierce , tumultuous pleasure they had always shared in the past — the total consummation which she had been denied for so long . |
| 8 | He confirmed that she had been invited for both the church service and the lunch . |
| 9 | Linda Evangelista was brilliantly marketed but there was never quite the attention until she had been established for quite a long time . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ We 've been isolated for so long and we all thought we were so bloody good but now we have to accept the reality that we are not . ’ |
| 11 | He asked members to support the motion so that the Attorney General as a member of the Government and as leader of this profession could convey to the Government our sense of disgust at the way we had been treated for so long ( sustained applause ) . |
| 12 | They 'd been gone for so long now . |
| 13 | They 've been made for more recent Carnivals . |
| 14 | She was well aware that it would seem thoroughly feeble — if not downright pathetic — to refuse to accompany him to New York simply because they had been separated for almost five years . |
| 15 | There was no evidence as to what the Perots ' attitude would have been if they had been asked for more than $2.5m. for Caliban . |
| 16 | But whereas they had been held for just a few years by his grandfather and father , they were in royal hands for thirty-one of the last forty years of Edward III 's reign , from 1337 to 1360 and then from 1369 onwards to the end of the century . |
| 17 | The justice ministry said yesterday , however , that because they had been held for more than two years without trial , they were released . |
| 18 | After they had been stranded for about an hour , they heard splashing and noticed a smell of dead fish , then a hissing noise . |
| 19 | They have been indoctrinated for nearly forty years with the belief that their right to this pension does not arise simply out of a public decision to pay it but is a right vested in the individual by virtue of certain payments made by him , and analogous to what would be his entitlement under a contract with an insurance company . |
| 20 | They have been united for more than 350 years , for much of which time Russians have perceived Ukrainians as ethnically identical to themselves . |
| 21 | It is the occupational disease of widowhood , Alida had long ago decided , they are none of them self-sufficient , they have been cushioned for so long they can not keep silent or rely upon themselves . |
| 22 | My main criticism of intensive agricultural production , and of animal farming in particular , is that it has been locked for too long into a model-T-Ford-type philosophy , geared to produce a standard commodity as cheaply as possible . |
| 23 | ( In fact it is Grade II starred because it has been inhabited for more than 1,000 years . ) |
| 24 | Furthermore , it has been criticised for not distinguishing between types of depression and confusing sad affect and clinical depression ( Buckwald et al. , 1978 ) . |
| 25 | It has been established for over 100 years , and has eight offices throughout the UK and a subsidiary in Guernsey . |
| 26 | Compost-making on a farm scale is yet uncommon in Britain ( it has been practised for over 4,000 years in China ) as it involves a very careful balance and mixing of ingredients , control of ventilation and moisture , and the extra work of at least one turning . |
| 27 | He 'd been ordered to report to the Ministry by his Adjutant , and either there had been some colossal mistake or he 'd been sent for under false pretences . |
| 28 | He 'd been disqualified for not having insurance and disqualified before that for drink driving . |
| 29 | I wondered where Toby was — he 'd been gone for over thirty-six hours now . |
| 30 | It had been prepared for quite some time and the brunt of it was against the Serbs , ’ said Col Jovanovic . |