Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [verb] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , later , I believed that I had been born to die for someone . |
| 2 | After I had been kept waiting for a few moments in an ante-room , I was ushered into the main boardroom where Dr Barton and six colleagues were seated around a long , rectangular , polished table . |
| 3 | The latter I had been intending to read for years and , by happenstance , had come across a cheap edition in a book sale just days before setting out . |
| 4 | One of the pink slips was a Returning-Your-Call message from a recently-elected female politician she had been trying to contact for days . |
| 5 | She had no fire in her bedroom , where she had been sitting waiting for his call , and staring at the dying mistletoe . |
| 6 | Powerhouse walked out after complaining that they had been kept waiting for 40 minutes for the court and Components Bureau claimed the points by default and then appealed unsuccessfully against the Scottish Association 's decision to rearrange the fixture . |
| 7 | Here Richard I 's envoys announced that the king would not stand — they had been ordered to vote for the Count Palatine Henry ( whose support Richard wanted in his struggle against the French king ) but he still had not returned . |
| 8 | If their bodies had not been quite crushed to death by the labours they had been forced to perform for their Egyptian taskmasters , then surely their spirits had been . |
| 9 | In the 1960s the Northern Ireland Labour Party ( NILP ) was on the verge of becoming a significant political force , despite the fact that it had been left to fend for itself in very difficult circumstances . |
| 10 | We had a very happy collaboration in Berlin over Mozart 's Die Zauberflöte , which he had been wanting to do for a number of years . |
| 11 | It was something he had been wanting to do for over ten years , but , now that he had done it , he had destroy something that had been between them — a mysterious , almost exquisite , promise of delight . |
| 12 | And now he had been made to pay for what he had done . |
| 13 | They looked at each other , Jean-Paul focusing his eyes with difficulty , and Edouard saw the coarsening in his brother which he had been trying to ignore for days . |
| 14 | Director Alvin Rakoff had problems with Crawford when it came to a crucial , very dramatic scene that he shared with Donald Pleasence , who was playing the police officer who could see a way to nailing the crook whom he had been trying to get for twenty years through his son . |
| 15 | Robert recognized faces he had been trying to avoid for weeks . |
| 16 | Influenced particularly by Ravi Shankar , whose film music he had been hired to score for Western musicians . |
| 17 | In fairness to Sarah he had wanted to devote a whole day to her , but the pressure of his work had made it impossible , and he had been forced to settle for an afternoon wedding , following a Governors ' meeting , so that he and his bride could depart for Chertsey on the last train . |