Example sentences of "been [vb pp] for an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile in Mali Tuaregs had been blamed for an attack on June 28-29 at Ménaka , in which some 20 people died . |
| 2 | The shooting ended a promising future for Nicola who had been recommended for an audition with the Royal Ballet . |
| 3 | After watching feeble jokes about Norma Major 's voting intentions and Neil Kinnock 's image , I wished it could have been monitored for an injection of humour . |
| 4 | The others had been gone for an hour by the time she was ready to leave . |
| 5 | ‘ From Casderigg brow , the fells of Newlands were admirably contrasted with the ancient road — Nothing is left root and branch is exterminated , and thus a few of the most lovely acres in the universe , have been despoiled for an exchange of corn and grass , while millions infinitely better fitted for the sustenance of man are almost wholly neglected … . miserable patches of green and brown , which pervade the denuded area , and now startlingly salute the traveller , on his way from Keswick and Brow Top to the fort of Casderiggs . ’ |
| 6 | The preoccupations of this text are most readily explained on the view that , to bar missio , value had to have been paid for an object under trust . |