Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | people who 'd been expelled for cannabis , |
| 2 | She 'd been longing for peace and quiet so that she could get on with her carving , and , now that she had it , was standing here like a loon ! |
| 3 | It was enough for the Church that a corpse had been presented for burial . |
| 4 | ( A Challen piano had been presented for use in the church in 1976 . ) |
| 5 | One ‘ character ’ , Sharon , the schoolgirl who loves ( among other things ) the Brontes , had been written for Sugar and Spite and she did n't depend on rhyme for her humour and seemed less steam-radio-Stanley-Holloway-meets-Flanders-and-Swann-meets-Joyce-Grenfell-old-fashioned . |
| 6 | Only 6 billion had been exchanged for som . |
| 7 | After permission had been obtained for access to medical records , the OPCS provided details of all admissions to this hospital with various liver diseases ( diagnoses listed int Table I ) for the three years from 1 January 1987 ( the most recent dates available ) . |
| 8 | This third draft of the Treaty , the most radical so far in devolving powers to the republics ( " states " ) , had been sent for discussion to the USSR Supreme Soviet and the Supreme Soviets of the republics at the end of June 1991 . |
| 9 | She frequently attacked her attendants and discharged herself from institutions where she had been sent for treatment . |
| 10 | Bruce 's forces were defeated first in Methven wood by the English , and then beside Loch Tay by Comyn 's uncle , the Lord of Lorn The king 's sister and the Countess of Buchan who had crowned him were dragged out of sanctuary where they had been sent for safety , and exhibited in cages hanging from castle walls at Roxburgh and Berwick . |
| 11 | The large group of sculpture , including sandstone figures and bronzes , had been sent for sale from America . |
| 12 | Once again advantage was being taken of the false building block principle which had been discovered for sulphanilamide ( see Chapter 8 ) . |
| 13 | Women 's Aid and the Domestic Violence Working Group — a body composed of those encountering the results of domestic violence — had been calling for clarification in the law since the decision . |
| 14 | When Clementis had been hung for treason |
| 15 | The Parish population , always minimal , had sunk to nil after the last two men had been hung for sheep-stealing . |
| 16 | There was no comfort either in Mr Ben Ali 's speech for the other opposition parties which , after their poor results in the elections , had been looking for government help . |
| 17 | His best guess was that the reference was to Nerys , that his unconscious mind had been looking for comfort in the prospect that Wayne would at least be with his mother , in which case he decided that there was probably some hope for his mental state after all . |
| 18 | By the time the Scandinavian countries invited Britain back to Stockholm for the 1982 Conference on Acidification , the sums had been done for exchange of acid pollution between Europe 's nations , showing Britain to be the biggest producer and exporter of sulphur pollution in Western Europe . |
| 19 | For their part it was unnecessary as they only drank what had been boiled for tea or coffee , whereas I often drank water on its own or with fruit cordial . ) |
| 20 | The cultivator had been displayed for sale outside the front of the house , but was put in the back garden for safe-keeping on Friday night . |
| 21 | Of the seven who were dead , two had been referred for consideration of liver transplantation . |
| 22 | Yesterday , Coun Davies said she understood that bids had been invited for exploration of the coastal region which included Aberconwy . |
| 23 | But by 1983 sales had been arranged for part of Britoil , Associated British Ports , Amersham International , shares in BP , and the NEB 's shareholdings ( Table 8.2 ) . |
| 24 | Broken glass and dishes were all over the floor mixed with what had been served for dinner — steak , corn and potatoes . |
| 25 | TUBE passenger Jonathan Zito was stabbed to death in front of his brother just after they had been reunited for Christmas . |
| 26 | Collister later commented : ‘ What I was trying to get at was the way that in the alps in particular , the experience of adventure had been swapped for glamour . |
| 27 | Nigel had been summoned for jury duty on the date fixed for the event but his excuse of a prior engagement , whose nature he described , was accepted and he was excused . |
| 28 | Barges had been destroyed for fuel or left by their previous owners to be broken up by ice or swept downstream by the spring floods . |
| 29 | The catalyst for the rioting was the decision by an all-white jury to acquit four officers of the Los Angeles Police Department ( LAPD ) on charges arising from the beating of Rodney King , a motorist who had been stopped for traffic violations . |
| 30 | One uezd in Simbirsk guberniia , just to the west of Samara and nearly as badly affected , had been assessed for tax at 470,000 pudy in 1919 on a good crop , of which 350,000 had been collected . |