Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lalande wrote of him in 1763 : ‘ Sisson has been several times in prison for failing to pay his workmen [ of whom Jesse Ramsden , q.v. , was one ] ; he starts many things and finishes nothing : he takes his instruments to the pawnbroker , where they have been seen selling for a tenth of their value . |
| 2 | The time that would have been spent waiting for the Department of Social Security to answer the telephone might instead have been used to uncover what Sally 's own priorities are . |
| 3 | ‘ You can do nothing to make up for the time that 's been wasted checking for a link between that incident and the murder of Hal MacQuillan . ’ |
| 4 | Bratti had been discovered spying for a rival security service . |
| 5 | After I had been kept waiting for a few moments in an ante-room , I was ushered into the main boardroom where Dr Barton and six colleagues were seated around a long , rectangular , polished table . |
| 6 | She reached across the desk , grabbed the instrument and began tapping out a number with the angry , impatient air of someone who has been kept waiting for an unacceptably long time . |