Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [be] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been looking for pollen , the other standby of people who study ancient plants . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , he has been caddying for Harley in Europe , and he did win one tournament and finished equal second in the other . |
| 3 | McHale plans to use the extra £50,000 he has been given for players ' wages to good effect . |
| 4 | He has been jailed for explosives offences in Ulster and has previously been denied a visa . |
| 5 | Where the Crown Court is dealing with an offender for offences for which he has been committed for sentence under Criminal Justice Act 1967. s.56 , whether they are summary or either way , the Court must observe the limitations which would apply in the magistrates ' court to the sentence for those offences . |
| 6 | John McKay ( Points of View , 15 February ) writes that Father James Morrow ‘ like the Pharisees , forgets that the laws he follows were made for man/woman and the social circumstances have to be considered when applying them ’ . |
| 7 | And yes , he 's been mistaken for food a few times ! |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | He 's been jailed for firearms , fraud and passport offences and caught smuggling 4 tons of cannabis into Australia . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | President Bill Clinton has been in the White House just a month but already he 's been proposed for Oxford University 's highest honour . |
| 12 | He 's been canoeing for years . |