Example sentences of "who [vb past] been [verb] for the " in BNC.
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1 | It quickly emerged that a good deal of potential support was coming from those Conservative Members who had been elected for the first time . |
2 | She hardly listened to Mr Lessing 's explanation ; the tutor was his cousin , who had been intended for the Church but proved to have divergent views from his bishop , and had resigned . |
3 | Apart from anything else , his family came from Glasgow ( unlike twenty-five of the thirty-one Scottish lord lieutenants , Admiral Bryson had also been educated in Scotland ) , as several of the big Sussex landowners who had been hoping for the job quickly pointed out . |
4 | All had two or more close relatives who had been treated for the disease . |
5 | Earlier , police in Pretoria had on Sept. 17 arrested Piet ( " Skiet " ) Rudolph , deputy leader of the far-right Boerestaat party , who had been wanted for the previous four months in connection with bombings and arms thefts . |
6 | The suspected assassin , José Sales , who was arrested later , was believed to be a professional gunman hired by local landowners who had been blamed for the murder in 1985 of his predecessor Joao Canuto . |
7 | This traditional story tells of a boy who had been substituted for the smith 's own son who had been taken away by fairies . |
8 | And while we were talking about Crippen , it would probably be unwise to choose as a role model someone who had been topped for the offence . |