Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I know but Marks and Spencers are a crap shop I do n't care if they go out of business they 're a rip off anyway , they 're so expensive , such crap clothes , they 're so common , that 's the word I 've been looking for common , that 's my word of the week I think er common common , does it not get to ya looking like everyone else ? |
| 2 | You 've been made for other things than politics and intrigue . ’ |
| 3 | Checking through her notes , the doctor saw that she had been treated for vaginal thrush on several occasions . |
| 4 | By the end of the " thirties , Aunt Tossie wondered for how many years she had been paying for interesting yearlings , and with very uninteresting results . |
| 5 | He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house . |
| 6 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
| 7 | Well obviously there is change and one of the things that we 've been doing for International Women 's celebrations during March , because we 're having a whole month of activities , is |
| 8 | The biggest problem and disappointment was that the international rig count continued downwards and that was where we had been hoping for increased sales and increased market share looking into this year and into the last part of last year . |
| 9 | A judge told William Sim and David Todd that they had been playing for high stakes and had to pay the penalty . |
| 10 | They had been waiting for high water so that they could sail alongside in a civilised manner . |
| 11 | Often they had been laid for commercial purposes , including coal mining , but were becoming disused . |
| 12 | Although they have been developed for acrylic painters , I 'm sure they are ideal for oil painters too , as they can be cleaned in turpentine overnight , then used for acrylic painting the very next day . |
| 13 | Since they have been selected for fast growth , these birds are only seven or eight weeks old when they are transported — really just overgrown chicks . |
| 14 | Farmyard , horse , cow , pig , sheep , goat , poultry and similar ‘ raw ’ manures are all very variable because they must depend upon the food intake of the animals concerned , and the age of the manure — the time it has been stacked for nitrogenous urine to have drained out or been decomposed . |
| 15 | Furthermore , from a banker 's standpoint a bill that indicates that the merchandise has been ‘ shipped ’ or placed ‘ on board ’ is preferable to one which merely states that it has been received for future shipment . |
| 16 | It has been validated for early diagnosis of tuberculosis . |
| 17 | In the past , it has been criticised for poor graphics . |
| 18 | In recent months , it has been blamed for freak storms in Pacific islands and on the Californian coast , and flooding in Peru . |
| 19 | The pose is certainly borrowed from Egypt , where it had been used for male figures for centuries . |
| 20 | To find conditions leading to the formation of stable complexes we investigated whether the addition in the incubation mixture of the first two initiating NTPs relieved the heparin sensitivity , as it had been described for other promoters with similar characteristics ( 8 ) . |
| 21 | So small an area of land was available in Barbados when it turned to sugar in the 1640s that land prices were pushed up to ten times the level at which it had been sold for growing tobacco . |
| 22 | He had been earmarked for senior management and his posting to the US was intended to serve a double purpose . |
| 23 | There had been a shop in Street I which is still there but it 's been used for other things now . |
| 24 | The distance he 's travelled is equal to sixty miles per hour times the number of hours , he 's been travelling for okay ? |
| 25 | Long service awards for trio of Terriers THREE part-time soldiers with nearly 70 years in uniform between them have been honoured for long service . |