Example sentences of "had been [verb] in for " in BNC.
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| 1 | A further meeting had been pencilled in for today , but ministers emerged after a two-hour meeting with the plans agreed . |
| 2 | They yesterday found out which rating band their houses had been placed in for the new tax , which starts next April . |
| 3 | Reveille for the remainder was at 0600 , as the transit camp we had been living in for the fortnight had to be handed over to the next inhabitants spick and span . |
| 4 | But meanwhile , the hospital workers had been dug in for another kind of long war which ca n't be won the miners ' way . |
| 5 | But her deep tanned face had been lived in for a fistful of decades . |
| 6 | The 4,538 spectators at the game included about 1,000 visiting fans , and extra police officers had been drafted in for the game due to Cardiff 's large away following . |
| 7 | Manager ‘ Ila Tapueluelu , however , disclosed that five younger players had been drafted in for the Fiji event after a disappointing showing in a tournament in Western Samoa . |
| 8 | Boeing had the facilities to test aircraft structures to destruction , and they also had some old Boeing 707/300–400 series that had been traded in for more modern aircraft from which stabilisers could be taken . |
| 9 | I realized that this was the same place Brian and I had been held in for a week in May 1988 before going to the Pit . |
| 10 | Whitechurch wrote : ‘ The immense timber yard is enough to make one imagine that material had been laid in for building a fleet of a hundred arks after the pattern of Noah 's . |
| 11 | Peter Tomlinson , inexperienced in television terms , had been brought in for a key " anchor " role and I could appreciate the excessive pressure on him . |
| 12 | If anything had been brought in for you it had to be handed in at the screws ' table , and they had to sign the property book . |
| 13 | Somewhere , cowbells sounded ; the animals had been brought in for the night , maybe . |