Example sentences of "she had [been] [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been asked for twelve and it was now half past eleven , which would give her time for a pleasant comfortable drive to Carpendens Court . |
| 2 | She had been intended for a respectable life . |
| 3 | And in Amabel 's experience it had always been the wife who complained of it , Ethel Lord , for instance , fretting herself into a decline , or very nearly , when her husband had taken to spending so much time in Leeds ; Maria Colclough turning to religion because her man emerged so rarely from his counting house ; even strident Lizzie Braithwaite complaining that she had been neglected for the sake of the business . |
| 4 | She frequently attacked her attendants and discharged herself from institutions where she had been sent for treatment . |
| 5 | This time she had been sent for urgently because Nigel had taken a turn for the worse — in fact , had nearly died after his peritonitis operation . |
| 6 | The woman did not return to complete the divorce , although she had been separated for three years . |
| 7 | That incident so many years ago when she had been punished for the supposed loss of the ring was etched indelibly in her mind . |
| 8 | She had been accepted for the job at Ardis & Co , looking the way she normally looked , but if to keep her job — and she had no idea at that stage whether there was a Vasey junior , or similar , at G Vasey Ltd — she had to go in for a bit of de glamorisation , then so be it . |
| 9 | Checking through her notes , the doctor saw that she had been treated for vaginal thrush on several occasions . |
| 10 | She had been treated for depression . |
| 11 | She had been paralysed for thirty years . |
| 12 | She had been packed for a day or so , but had realized as she took a last look round that her fridge was still switched on with a bottle of milk inside . |
| 13 | And she cried out as a cascade of fireworks seemed to explode deep within her , before their bodies , now moving in perfect unison , recaptured the fierce , tumultuous pleasure they had always shared in the past — the total consummation which she had been denied for so long . |
| 14 | He confirmed that she had been invited for both the church service and the lunch . |
| 15 | Betty Bell was the chief informant about Harold Shoosmith for she had been engaged for three mornings and three evenings a week . |
| 16 | She had been jailed for seven days . |
| 17 | She had been prepared for tubes , drips , oxygen masks , machines that bleeped frantically , and anxious , hovering doctors in white coats ; not Bella , as truculent as ever , sitting up demanding cups of tea . |
| 18 | She had been widowed for five months , very nearly . |
| 19 | Linda Evangelista was brilliantly marketed but there was never quite the attention until she had been established for quite a long time . ’ |
| 20 | And Anjelica Huston returned to her own home saying that she had been humiliated for the very last time . |
| 21 | She had been meant for Tolonen — as a ‘ gift ’ to replace his murdered daughter — but Jelka 's survival had meant a change of plans . |
| 22 | She had been admitted for treatment on many occasions , he said . |
| 23 | For as long as she lived , she had been provided for . |
| 24 | This script began with Aunt Lilian 's release from the shabby asylum in which she had been held for decades . |
| 25 | The conditional bail had been granted after she had been arrested for shouting ‘ scab ’ at working miners . |
| 26 | After she had been arrested for playing the two-backed beast with Culpepper — and me , though I was n't caught , but there again that 's another tale — the king 's guards came to take her whilst she was staying at Hampton Court . |