Example sentences of "had been [verb] out for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once parliament had given its assent to the war and Edward 's prospective companions in arms had been singled out for honours , Edward set about mobilizing the financial support he needed . |
| 2 | Cranston claimed that his relationship with Keating was essentially no different from that of the other four senators , but that , because he was suffering from cancer and had announced his intention not to seek re-election on the expiry in 1992 of his current term , he had been singled out for sanction as a " scapegoat " . |
| 3 | The Kuwaiti government consistently denied that Palestinians had been singled out for arrest and punishment . |
| 4 | Because both test and control groups had been singled out for special attention a group pride had developed and this became the motivation for improved performance . |
| 5 | Looks as though it had been cut out for some reason . |
| 6 | In the Captain 's office the Substitute snapped his briefcase shut and his registrar handed over the warrants that had been made out for Rudolfo , Scano 's boy and the gamekeeper . |
| 7 | Her own future had been mapped out for her by wealthy and adoring parents , newly returned from India , and because it was so much to her liking she did not rebel against their edicts . |
| 8 | Even so , it was not until 27 May 1952 that sufficient of the detail had been thrashed out for the representatives of the six countries , meeting in Paris , to be able to sign the treaty establishing the EDC . |
| 9 | Riven found that a set of finer clothes had been left out for him , probably by Madra . |
| 10 | Its virtue was that it had no neighbours and it had been picked out for just that reason : no-one to ask questions , no-one expecting to start up a friendship . |
| 11 | Suzanne Gratton , 22 , of Warwick Close , Birkenhead , was accused after it was noticed that the licence on her car had been taken out for another vehicle . |
| 12 | She then went on to point out that several pieces of silver had been laid out for the dining room which bore clear remains of polish . |
| 13 | Standing at the window in the small front lounge , where a buffet had been laid out for those guests arriving late , or for people who were still hungry , she saw Feargal accompany Phena , and the man who had been her constant companion at the wedding , walk down the path . |
| 14 | Da Silva had vanished at Canjuers ; a Scotsman had been thrown out for being underaged ; Gionesca was in hospital in Orange with dysentery and pneumonia after his bath ; Gazil , the Rumanian paratrooper , had developed a massive infection on his back caused by the friction of his rucksack during marching ; and the other six were ill or disabled after our stay at Canjuers . |
| 15 | Mat. 's door , in my own mind I had been slung out for encouraging unseemly behaviour from a male patient and was miserably working on the choice of my next career . |
| 16 | As it had been hired out for stage work a few times and was n't perfect the selling price was thirty-five pounds . |