Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] for [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 2 | But then , when you said they 'd been gone for a couple of years … ’ |
| 3 | Lucille Walker had n't brought me clear over to Hollywood just to tell me I 'd been played for a sucker . |
| 4 | By the time I moved in with Lucy and Joe , she 'd been divorced for a couple of years and her ex-husband had emigrated to America . |
| 5 | In her days as a schoolteacher she 'd been known for the quickness of her wit and her clarity of thought . |
| 6 | And he 'd been braced for the knife lunging out of the darkness . |
| 7 | Her claim failed because no date had been fixed for the ending of her employment . |
| 8 | Even when the happy couple had left for their honeymoon , and the floor of the marquee had been cleared for the dance due to follow the reception , she still felt as though she was wound up as tightly as a spring . |
| 9 | Furthermore , the Russian right wing had recently been reinforced by a new army , the Ninth , which had been raised for a drive on Berlin but was instead deployed against Austria . |
| 10 | The sum of £60 had been raised for the Telethon Appeal and further weekend competitions are on the programme . |
| 11 | The bowls were then sold to onlookers and by the end of the day over £1,000 had been raised for the storm appeal . |
| 12 | And another £500 had been raised for the appeal . |
| 13 | It was not in any way grand : simply a solid nineteenth-century country residence with a small courtyard and a pleasant garden sloping down to the river ; the sort of place , Celia reckoned , which had been built for a man of some substance : a prosperous merchant or , more likely , a gentleman farmer , the land having been incorporated into the nearby estate . |
| 14 | The cottage itself was not exactly pretty : red-brick and foursquare , it had been built for a farm labourer and his family in the middle of the last century . |
| 15 | The little tin house had been built for the friend 's father-in-law who had been the captain of the steamer based on inland Loch Awe . |
| 16 | It had been written for an age when wind was still the motive power for most of the world 's shipping , so that , though technically out of date , it was invaluable for some of the work I was doing , particularly wire splicing , and if we were rolled over and had to jury-rig the ship it would be a life saver . |
| 17 | Similarly it would be stated in the estate agents ' particulars whether permission had been granted for a house which is up for sale to be sold to someone who wanted to use it as a second home . |
| 18 | A complaint over parking space led to the discovery that no planning permission had been granted for the guest house . |
| 19 | However , the High Court of Justiciary considered the supply of excisable liquor outwith the permitted hours where an extension of the permitted hours had been granted for the sale or supply of alcoholic liquor to persons taking a table meal , and the liquor had been supplied to persons who had not requested or been provided with a meal . |
| 20 | She had been packed for a day or so , but had realized as she took a last look round that her fridge was still switched on with a bottle of milk inside . |
| 21 | Mother General 's view was that enough had been done for the child already . |
| 22 | None of this had been done for the prawn . |
| 23 | Practically nothing had been done for the environment since 1970 ; people had simply built more cars , more roads , more factories , and thrown ever-increasing tons of chemicals on to the land . |
| 24 | Invariably the cases studied had been referred for a variety of concerns and worries about the children but there was no unequivocal evidence that the children were abused according to any definition . |
| 25 | After an hour and 55 minutes , some £1,700 had been collected for the fund . |
| 26 | Bales had been arranged for the jury as they had been on the night of the fire . |
| 27 | A pre-wedding luncheon had been arranged for the family . |
| 28 | The others had been gone for an hour by the time she was ready to leave . |
| 29 | Before the second Dutch war they argued for parliamentary control of the revenue destined for the war , and during the session of 1666–7 Garway was in the forefront of the group 's attacks on government corruption , proposing a statutory committee to examine the accounts of the money which had been given for the war with the Dutch . |
| 30 | After evidence had been led for the prosecution counsel for the defendant submitted that there was no case to answer on the theft charges because the manager of the shop had authorised the transactions , so that there had been no appropriation within the meaning of section 1(1) of the Act . |