Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [been] [vb pp] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could have been different if I had been accepted for the Forces , but this way I mean to make Marion my wife and I hope … well … well ’ — he jerked his head upwards — ‘ I may as well say it , that if I have a son , or for second best , a daughter , to carry on here . |
| 2 | ‘ When I heard I had been chosen for the full squad , it was a bit of a shock , but it really was a dream come true . ’ |
| 3 | and they can put that on the recorder but I 've been told for the last two and a half years by this government that I am not unemployed . |
| 4 | Siegfried , I do n't know what you 'll think , but I 've been recommended for the MC — and I 've recommended every single NCO who was with me . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been excused for the moment . |
| 6 | Look at the times I 've been refused for the forces . |
| 7 | The House of Lords has asked whether it is sex discrimination , contrary to Directive 76/207/EEC , to dismiss a female employee when she has been engaged for the specific purpose of replacing ( after training ) another female employee who is about to go on maternity leave and when the maternity leave replacement discovers very shortly after appointment that she too is pregnant and will need maternity leave and the employer dismisses her because he needs the job holder to be at work during that period . |
| 8 | She has been sidestepped for the chief slot on News At Ten , been desperately ill and has now been chopped from her Focus On Britain spot . |
| 9 | In her days as a schoolteacher she 'd been known for the quickness of her wit and her clarity of thought . |
| 10 | And in Amabel 's experience it had always been the wife who complained of it , Ethel Lord , for instance , fretting herself into a decline , or very nearly , when her husband had taken to spending so much time in Leeds ; Maria Colclough turning to religion because her man emerged so rarely from his counting house ; even strident Lizzie Braithwaite complaining that she had been neglected for the sake of the business . |
| 11 | That incident so many years ago when she had been punished for the supposed loss of the ring was etched indelibly in her mind . |
| 12 | She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it . |
| 13 | And Anjelica Huston returned to her own home saying that she had been humiliated for the very last time . |
| 14 | Instead , she 's been saved for the moment by an old-fashioned storyteller , worth millions — George Lucas of Star Wars . |
| 15 | ‘ We have been threatened for the past three or four years . |
| 16 | They 've been bought for the fact that all over the country there 's all these holes in the wall and people are putting up shelves , building furniture or whatever . |
| 17 | They had been admitted for the surgical treatment of the following conditions : group e : benign disease ( comprising patients with benign colorectal tumours ( two ) , plus those with chronic cholecystitis ; group f : inflammatory bowel disease ( all patients had moderately active ulcerative colitis with diffuse involvement of the whole colon , but no evidence at laparotomy or on liver function tests of hepatic damage ) ; group g : colorectal carcinoma . |
| 18 | But although they had been settled for the moment the two great political problems of the next half-century had already been foreshadowed : first , the tensions within the Angevin family ; second , the feudal question of the relationship between lord and vassal , between Capetian and Angevin . |
| 19 | They have been selected for the quality of their objectives and will involve working in partnership with geographers , conservationists and ecologists in the countries they visit . |
| 20 | " I have been connected with different unions for this last twenty years " , he declared to the Royal Commission on Labour in 1892 , " but I am sorry to state that they have been formed for the benefit of one man , for he has generally cleared out with the funds " . |
| 21 | Often these can provide extremely useful teaching material , despite the fact that they have been produced for the general public , rather than with a school 's audience in mind . |
| 22 | They have been criticised for the choice of colours associated with warfare , but up here in these hills surrounded by an army of uniformed police , US marshalls and private security guards all bristling with weapons , it is war : UMWA vice-president Cecil Roberts has said as much . |
| 23 | They have been chosen for the posts in other parts of the country because their employers consider them to be the best people for these particular jobs . |
| 24 | This causes a reaction even after they have been entangled for the rabbits are inclined to bite at the net if they are left within it for too long . |
| 25 | A decent man doing a difficult job with players who are light years away from being the world 's best , he has been treated for the last week like a cross between a child molester and a Nazi war criminal . |
| 26 | Romany King who was second has a great chance for he has been trained for the race by Toby Balding and will have the assistance of Adrian Maguire the big race specialist . |
| 27 | So far it has been implemented for the 68000 , 88000 , R-Series and Sparc processors . |
| 28 | Some flights are night flights — when you arrive in the resort your room is immediately available , as it has been reserved for the whole night . |
| 29 | If unstable complexes are in a rapid equilibrium with unbound RNA polymerase , as it has been suggested for the E.coli rrnD P 1 and for the B.subtilis citB promoters ( 10 , 11 ) , an increase in the ionic strength should impair promoter efficiency . |
| 30 | It has been known for the hinges on a canopy to fail or for poorly designed and faulty catches to fail in flight , resulting in a lost canopy . |