Example sentences of "that [pers pn] had been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it brought home to me with a rush something which had been slowly dawning on me ever since I joined the Air Force ; that I had been spoiled for quite a long time now . |
| 2 | When I replied that I had been fighting for the extra 200,000 I had managed to achieve , I was remonstrated with for having put the business at risk . |
| 3 | He confirmed that she had been invited for both the church service and the lunch . |
| 4 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 5 | Checking through her notes , the doctor saw that she had been treated for vaginal thrush on several occasions . |
| 6 | And in Amabel 's experience it had always been the wife who complained of it , Ethel Lord , for instance , fretting herself into a decline , or very nearly , when her husband had taken to spending so much time in Leeds ; Maria Colclough turning to religion because her man emerged so rarely from his counting house ; even strident Lizzie Braithwaite complaining that she had been neglected for the sake of the business . |
| 7 | And Anjelica Huston returned to her own home saying that she had been humiliated for the very last time . |
| 8 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 9 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 10 | They may not have found quite the soulmate in each other that they had been looking for , but their relationship has made up for it in other ways . |
| 11 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 12 | His wife now feared that they had been punished for his presumption . |
| 13 | The UAE news agency WAM reported that they had been expelled for " activities which harm relations between the two countries including the fabrication of false reports about the Sudanese community in the UAE " . |
| 14 | A judge told William Sim and David Todd that they had been playing for high stakes and had to pay the penalty . |
| 15 | They were then very pleased to read in the book that it had been done for the very same reasons . |
| 16 | Labour attempted to pre-empt any jobs package by stressing yesterday that it had been pressing for such measures since before Christmas . |
| 17 | The possibility that he had been killed for some reason connected with his father 's letters did not occur to Derek . |
| 18 | Shortly afterwards his father died : he felt that he had been punished for expecting too much . |
| 19 | He had joined up as Air Crew , and for several weeks had walked around proudly with the white flash in his cap , denoting that he had been selected for flying . |
| 20 | After his exit from Monday 's semi-finals , Black revealed that he had been struggling for five years with a ‘ bio-mechanical ’ problem which affects his body balance and leads to other injuries . |
| 21 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 22 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 23 | ‘ He was not in the premier division of drugs dealers in Belfast and police have no reason to contradict his assertion that he had been involved for a short time , ’ the Crown lawyer added . |
| 24 | In the following year his son-in-law ( Sir ) John Wolley [ q.v. ] told him that he had been recommended for the vice-presidency of Wales . |
| 25 | Could his intended victim have somehow guessed , from an unguarded look perhaps , that he had been marked for death ? |
| 26 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
| 27 | In February 1756 reference is made to four illustrations ‘ sent some time since by our friend , Mr. Collinson ’ and Miller said he would have sent others except for the fact that he had been waiting for better colourists . |
| 28 | One particularly nasty German television journalist informed me that he had been waiting for a month and if anyone was getting near Ortega , it was him . |
| 29 | It was true he had had no stomach for the pallid lamb chops that he had been offered for lunch . |
| 30 | The case of Kenneth Littlejohn had been prominent in the news during the year and they had the impression that he had been working for the Home Office . |