Example sentences of "been [verb] in for a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A twenty year old man has been called in for a chat with an inspector .
2 Almost every word has been put in for a purpose and needs to be commented upon .
3 The house was n't run-down , either , but there were touches here and there betraying the fact 64 that it had n't been lived in for a couple of years ; the windows that were n't shuttered were n't clean , and there were weeds pushing up through the gravel .
4 But her deep tanned face had been lived in for a fistful of decades .
5 I realized that this was the same place Brian and I had been held in for a week in May 1988 before going to the Pit .
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