Example sentences of "we have been [vb pp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 'd been told for years how generous they would be , but when we challenged them , they had nothing for us . |
| 2 | Almost without exception we 'd been knocked for six . |
| 3 | ‘ But that 's what we 've been sent for ; to fetch you back . |
| 4 | ‘ But we 've been separated for four years , ’ she reminded him in a more reasonable tone . |
| 5 | We 've been bugged for 10 years by a reputation for extremism and division , which we 're just getting rid of . |
| 6 | ‘ We 've been isolated for so long and we all thought we were so bloody good but now we have to accept the reality that we are not . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We 've been criticised for saying that all children under five should have books in the home . |
| 8 | Drummer Chris Cooper explained : ‘ We 've been criticised for being shoddy live so we decided to do something about . |
| 9 | We 've been criticised for bringing him in so late but we tried to bring him in earlier . |
| 10 | No I did n't Stefan , we 've been blamed for some things in our time , have n't we but |
| 11 | He asked members to support the motion so that the Attorney General as a member of the Government and as leader of this profession could convey to the Government our sense of disgust at the way we had been treated for so long ( sustained applause ) . |
| 12 | We had been affianced for some weeks . ’ |
| 13 | We had been sent for . |
| 14 | We all went on doing the jobs we had been trained for . |
| 15 | We had been held for three and a half years and we still had no idea when we might be released . |
| 16 | One afternoon we had been taken for a walk up to the top of the mountain behind the camp , which had been good exercise ; from the top I had been able to see the sea . |
| 17 | However , the know-how fund is doing extremely good work throughout the former Soviet republics , where we have been asked for that help , as it is in the rest of central and eastern Europe . |
| 18 | ‘ We have been threatened for the past three or four years . |
| 19 | ‘ We have been punished for schoolboy errors in defence and we can not afford similar slips against Hartlepool . |
| 20 | We have been pestered for men to protect several houses , and as these people have such influence , we can not refuse . ’ |
| 21 | We have been told for several centuries now that every child is naturally different and it is therefore wrong to impose on one the mould which has been prepared for others unlike it . |
| 22 | ‘ What is the true financial cost to the public of this deal , and why we have been deceived for 16 months ? ’ |