Example sentences of "who have be [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 10–17 Jesus violates the taboo against healing on the sabbath by healing a woman who has been bent over for many years , justifying this on the grounds that it is even more urgent to help a fellow human being , a woman , than to rescue an animal that has fallen into a ditch ( an exception allowed under the law ) . |
| 2 | ‘ This is a girl who has been crying out for help , ’ one aide said . |
| 3 | DARLINGTON discovery Andrew Pyrah , who has been running seriously for only 18 months , won the Man of the Match award in the Woolworth Young Athletes match at Middlesbrough yesterday . |
| 4 | Mrs Probyn 's husband has told police that the pair , who 've been living apart for several months , had a row . |
| 5 | In patient 10 , who had been operated on for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously , a gastric lymphoma was diagnosed on the basis of biopsy specimens . |
| 6 | Mr Devi Lal , for example , who had been lobbying hard for the home ministry to add to his deputy premiership , had to content himself with the agriculture ministry . |
| 7 | Controls comprised 21 patients with ileal pouches constructed during the same period who had been followed up for a mean duration of 43 months ( range 15–119 months ) and who had had endoscopies that showed no evidence of active inflammation . |
| 8 | But a duty was a duty , a posting could not be evaded by a Major who had been turned down for promotion to Colonel . |
| 9 | He was John Brown , a miner who had been entombed alone for 23 days . |
| 10 | Checking his watch he saw it was time to swim back to the canoe and his rendezvous with Roger Courtney , who had been paddling offshore for the last few hours , keeping the canoe head or stern towards the beach so that it was less likely to be seen . |
| 11 | She knew about Cormac of the Wolves , her great-grandfather , who had been exiled here for five years , and she knew about the others as well : Niall of the Nine Hostages , caught and chained and kept prisoner with nine faithful Lords until he broke out and regained the Throne . |
| 12 | A couple to note in the Sturt colours are Scintillas Crest and Scintillas Silk — who have been pencilled in for Thursday 's meeting . |
| 13 | The prevalence of this diminishes with time after the event , which you might think peculiar , but there are fewer patients who have been followed up for five years . |
| 14 | Despite this the symptom of urgency is invariably improved and all 81 patients with ulcerative colitis who have been followed up for more than six months state that they can defer defaecation for more than two hours . |
| 15 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 16 | His remarks will disappoint many right-wing Tories who have been pushing hard for the Government to give a firm commitment to privatisation . |
| 17 | This allowance is very limited — it is available only for married women whose child/children are over four years of age and who have been signing on for the previous six months . |
| 18 | The first and third shows , ( dis ) parities and countervail , profile with work of two groups of women who have been working collectively for a number of years . |
| 19 | ‘ The thing is , Management will listen to him and he 'll get what he wants , not like poor old Ron who 's been waffling away for years and not getting anywhere . |
| 20 | The Bishop of Tewkesbury , who 's been standing in for Bishop Peter , spoke of his sadness over the resignation . |