Example sentences of "he [vb -s] been [verb] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | McHale plans to use the extra £50,000 he has been given for players ' wages to good effect . |
2 | He has been jailed for explosives offences in Ulster and has previously been denied a visa . |
3 | OLYMPIC aces returning from Barcelona this week brought back a very silly story about cycling superstar Chris Boardman : ‘ Have you heard he 's been tested for drugs . ’ |
4 | He 's been jailed for firearms , fraud and passport offences and caught smuggling 4 tons of cannabis into Australia . |
5 | Everyone thought Pratesi was the buyer because he 's been talking for years about building a bigger place , rearing his own pigs and growing his own feed . |
6 | He 's been canoeing for years . |