Example sentences of "[been] [verb] that [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the Tour 's A.G.M. last year , I asked how many players had been fined that season for slow play . |
| 2 | Earl Grey was so English , so sedate , and maybe Ilsa had been living that way for fifty years . |
| 3 | On Dec. 23 two Palestinians were shot dead and more than 40 injured during fresh unrest in the Gaza Strip , the borders of which had been opened that day for the first time since the abduction of Toledano . |
| 4 | I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris . |
| 6 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 7 | The negro was obviously homosexual and I realized that homosexuals had been buying that stuff for years . |
| 8 | ‘ I believe he had been planning that warning for some time . |