Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] for [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 2 | I mean the doctor was no help and I 'd been waiting for over a coupla months to get into the Clinic for a detox . |
| 3 | We 'd been shagging for about a month . |
| 4 | I heard that Lord Salisbury and Sir Winston Churchill had been sent for by the Queen . |
| 5 | This is not to diminish Sacrosanctum Concilium , which ranks with the Constitutions on the Church , on Scripture and the Pastoral Mission of the Church as one of the major documents of Vatican II , but at least as much as they — and perhaps more so — it had been prepared for during the pontificate of Pius XII . |
| 6 | The register , which had been provided for in the 1990 Environmental Protection Act and featured in the Prime Minister 's " Citizen Charter " , would have covered an estimated 100,000 sites . |
| 7 | The seats had been paid for by the City Corporation . |
| 8 | The first Cabinet member to be linked with the Sagawa scandal was Transport Minister Keiwa Okuda , who on March 1 admitted that the salary of one of his aides had been paid for by the transport group at the centre of the scandal . |
| 9 | Exports to them had increased by 200 per cent and they were taking more than half of British exports.30 Colonial trade enabled Britain to pay for continued imports of linens , wines and timber from Europe with re-exported colonial products , which had been paid for by the export of domestic manufactures . |
| 10 | The client had been acted for on a previous aborted purchase . |
| 11 | Miss Sherwin said she found out the stall had been sold for below the price she thought it was worth and felt ‘ ripped off ’ . |
| 12 | Officials say the dogs had been starved for over a month . |