Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [vb pp] for [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at least she has been prepared for her party to stand in elections here . |
| 2 | She has been nominated for her bounty packs campaign — the samples of baby food , drinks , nappies and creams given free to new mothers . |
| 3 | Ruth 's Medau training comes to the fore when she plans her class , and she has been commended for her ‘ whole-body ’ movement . |
| 4 | Karen had dipped badly in her A-levels and had done two years in a commerce school before she 'd been accepted for her degree course . |
| 5 | There is a well known Peanuts cartoon by Charles Schulz in which a girl is sitting at her school desk querying the C-grade she 's been given for her ‘ sculpture ’ made from a coat-hanger . |
| 6 | The third she found broken , knocked over on to its side , the water dripping from a puddle on the windowsill on to a seat below and through that on to the floor , and the flowers scattered and brown-edged , as if they 'd been picked for their beauty and freshness by a little girl and then loosed regardlessly on the path from her sticky hands as she ran off to do something else . |
| 7 | His wife now feared that they had been punished for his presumption . |
| 8 | They have been selected for their easy-to-understand controls and ease of maintenance . |
| 9 | But we know children can be at risk from even well-qualified professionals appointed to care for them ( not least in children 's homes to which they have been sent for their own welfare and safety ) , or from parents not burdened by a ‘ learning difficulty ’ label ( witness the recent ‘ home alone ’ cases here and in the United States ) . |
| 10 | Mr Gummer has used the guest house for every Tory conference since his student days and he told friends that he has been rewarded for his continued custom with the best room in the house . |
| 11 | Cummins was the West Indies ' leading wicket-taker in the World Cup and he has been selected for their squad to tour Australia this winter . |
| 12 | The third party is now commonly known as an expert , usually because he has been chosen for his expertise about the issue between the parties . |
| 13 | It has been tailored for its purpose and has been tested extensively over the past 12 years . |
| 14 | It has been known for its medicinal properties for 2,000 years and has been used by Russian cosmonauts since the 1970s . |
| 15 | There was nothing to spare unless he used the rupee that he had been given for his own food . |
| 16 | Bissett 's difficulty lay in the time he had been allocated for his paper on the theoretical dimensions of the device . |
| 17 | He had been tried for his life at the Guildhall and tomorrow would hang . |