Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [to-vb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had a very happy collaboration in Berlin over Mozart 's Die Zauberflöte , which he had been wanting to do for a number of years . |
| 2 | But in the two decades since this mindless butchery no one has been made to answer for a crime which sent shockwaves far beyond the shores of Ulster . |
| 3 | Following this direct action , BP Coal flew in its executives to meet LAG , a meeting that LAG had been attempting to organize for a year and a half . |
| 4 | Ebert , Fest and I. We were after the assassins of the T'ang 's Minister , Lwo Kang , and had been told to wait for a contact from our Triad connections there . |
| 5 | If you have been told to aim for a very precise figure , or have been following conventional height-to-weight charts , then you are almost definitely trying for an unrealistic weight . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've been waiting to move for a long time , and we need the money to build the new house . ’ |
| 7 | Now some of the money raised from its sale has been used to pay for a new art Gallery . |
| 8 | He has only expressed what a lot of other people have been starting to fear for a long time , that unless the commercial manipulators in tennis are careful , they could cook the golden goose . |
| 9 | The likes of Terry Wogan , Michael Parkinson and Ernie Wise all have been known to clamour for a soul food supper in preference to other exotic foreign fare . |
| 10 | Staff believe the birds may have been stolen to order for a private collector |
| 11 | Over the last year ACET 's centres in Dundee , Edinburgh and Glasgow have been asked to care for a growing number needing practical help to stay at home . |
| 12 | Ghozali 's immediate reaction to the amendments had been to threaten to ask for a second reading of the bill . |
| 13 | He and his friends would have seen that if they 'd been allowed to talk for a bit . |
| 14 | Seventy have been given refugee status and 240 have been allowed to stay for a year after which their cases will be reviewed . |
| 15 | From the ‘ mini ’ , weighing as little as an amoeba or only one hundred-millionth of a kilogram ( unc kg ) to the ‘ supermassive ’ with a mass one thousand million times that of the Sun , they have been invoked to account for a wide range of cosmic phenomena . |
| 16 | been trying to look for a bit of paper and I opened a book today and found it ! |
| 17 | Girardelli suffered severe bruising to his hip and the small of his back and has been advised to rest for a month and so could miss six World Cup races . |
| 18 | Ruud Gullit is injured and Ronnie Koeman , the Barcelona libero , has been ordered to rest for a week , and Milan , having won the World Club Championship in Tokyo , have advised Rijkaard and Van Basten not to play in Rotterdam . |