Example sentences of "who [vb past] [adv] been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the beginning of October , Kathy , who had again been invited for supper , arrived at Clare 's apartment to find that nothing had been cooked . |
| 2 | The Lombard brothers and Mike Waterlane , however , scored a goal apiece to put Rutshire into Sunday 's final against the mighty South Sussex , who had n't been beaten for three years . |
| 3 | Altogether she followed up 345 white American children who had been referred to the child guidance clinic for anti-social behaviour , 130 other referrals and 100 individuals who had attended neighbouring elementary schools who had not been referred for any specialist help , and who therefore provided a comparison group . |
| 4 | Digfar was run almost entirely by local Somali staff — 25 doctors and nearly 100 nurses — who had not been paid for over two years . |
| 5 | It turned out that he was a heavy drinker and smoker , who had not been running for about the last 20 years . |
| 6 | Many shrewd judges , both on the veldt and in England , though that the Springbok selectors were taking a massive gamble with Griffin , who had already been called for throwing in his own country , especially as unfair bowling had lately become a major issue . |
| 7 | The station was overflowing with badly wounded who had already been waiting for treatment for several days . |
| 8 | Firstly , as the research on the course of schizophrenia described in chapter 5 showed , a high level of criticism and overinvolvement expressed by the key close relative in the home increased the likelihood that a person who had previously been treated for schizophrenia would suffer an acute relapse of florid symptoms . |
| 9 | It is recorded somewhat ruefully that , after years of struggle , when the Veterinarian had won its fight to get the course lengthened , students who had previously been apprenticed for three or four years to a practitioner claimed they at least ought to be able to leave the College after 12 months , and not have to stay the same period — two years — as the non-apprenticed . |
| 10 | Arraigned on the same charge , Ren Wanding , the veteran human rights activist , who had previously been imprisoned for four years for his activities in the 1978-79 Democracy Movement , was given a more severe seven-year sentence with three years ' deprivation of political rights , having refused to show repentance for his " grave " crimes . |
| 11 | On Feb. 28 the boycott was again imposed in order to force testimony from Fumio Abe who had earlier been indicted for receiving money in the Kyowa scandal . |
| 12 | But this was not to be Coleraine 's day and in injury time striker McWalter , who had earlier been cautioned for dissent , was sent off following a challenge on keeper Devine . |
| 13 | Those army commanders who had still been hoping for a coup realized that all such hope was now lost . |
| 14 | The main stumbling block had been the appointment of its chair [ see pp. 37712 ; 37777 ; 37858 ] , a problem temporarily resolved on Dec. 11 when Prince Norodom Sihanouk , who had hitherto been pressing for the chairmanship , called on the SNC to " stop talking about the chairmanship and vice-chairmanship … and have the 12 SNC members , on an equal footing , work for peace " . |
| 15 | Their natural opponents , who had often been lashed for undue subservience to clerical domination , joyfully pointed this out : ‘ It is one of the ironies on English political life ’ declared The Tablet , the leading Roman Catholic weekly , ‘ that people who , when they are thinking of lies , are never tired of denouncing the influence of the clergy in politics , at the same time are quite ready to give up their political consciences to the keeping of their ministers . ’ |
| 16 | An army officer was killed by an ETA car bomb in Salamanca on Sept. 2 ; an off-duty policeman was shot dead in San Sebastián on Sept. 13 ; and a local policeman in Baracaldo near Bilbao , who had once been imprisoned for providing an ETA unit with accommodation , was killed on Oct. 21 apparently by the premature explosion of a bomb which he was handling . |