Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | They must have been riding for a long time , but there was no sign of a large town , only a solitary light shining ahead . |
| 2 | Whitaker and Milton would have been trying for a unique hat-trick in this , the most important of all indoor championships , after winning in Dortmund in 1990 and Gothenburg last year . |
| 3 | Police think whoever did it may have been searching for a non existant stache of money . |
| 4 | It was built around 1590 for a younger son of the Earl of Shaftesbury , whose family had owned the manor of Restrop for three hundred years , The coat of arms of the Ashley-Coopers ( the Shaftesbury family name ) is over the door , and it is very unlikely that such a very fine house , with its particularly beautiful roofs over the projecting bays , would have been built for a tenant farmer . |
| 5 | The government 's Countryside Commission argued that the licence should only have been renewed for a few years during a thorough review of military land requirements . |
| 6 | If her eyes had not been so bright and alert , she could have been mistaken for a corpse . |
| 7 | Her eyes were nearer black than brown and she wore woollen knee stockings ; from a distance she could have been mistaken for a child , of either sex . |
| 8 | It must have been mistaken for a deer . " |
| 9 | And which of the men might have been mistaken for a woman ? |
| 10 | The infant Labour Party was just building its strength , but it was not yet capable of winning seats on its own , and it might have been checkmated for a generation by a positive social policy financed from tariffs . |
| 11 | The main advantage of panels is that they provide feedback over a period of time , which increases the reliability of their responses compared with people who may have been stopped for a brief interview outside their local supermarket , for example . |
| 12 | You would have been forgiven for a knowing smile then , but now acid rain is no laughing matter . |
| 13 | Thus , in a lesson lasting an hour , each pupil will have been observed for a maximum of 10 minutes spread at regular intervals over the hour . |
| 14 | McKoy , having already been called back for one false start , would have been disqualified for a second offence — but he took full advantage of his head-start to pip Jackson for the gold . |
| 15 | It is not known where the Gospel was written but it must have been written for a Jewish Christian community . |
| 16 | It is now believed that they may have been written for a subscription concert series in 1788 — the ‘ Casino ’ series mentioned in a letter to Puchberg , which may have taken place in the autumn . |
| 17 | And the car was such a mess nobody would have been looking for a sawn brake cable . ’ |
| 18 | Must have been looking for a house . |
| 19 | Possibly , Haines 's public ‘ unveiling ’ should have been left for a while as he felt unable at this early stage to give firm views on major issues , such as racing 's finances and Jockey Club justice . |
| 20 | One wonders whether an England bowler would have been picked for a tour after a start like that . |
| 21 | Life must go on , they intimated , while stressing that the stadium would never have been considered for a semi-final involving Liverpool or Nottingham Forest . |
| 22 | This has the appearance of an emergency military operation which may not apply to the other civil defences , but these too must have been commissioned for a specific occasion , but where the emergency may not have been too critical . |
| 23 | Some ore was so intermixed with gangue however , that the concentration by hand was extremely laborious and the mill must have been needed for a long time . |
| 24 | Had it been out on the public streets he would have been arrested for a breach of the peace . |
| 25 | It altered her appearance considerably , making her look older and quite severe , and in her new black working dress she could have been taken for a widow . |
| 26 | Evans sees it as an adaptation of the Egyptian dog-ape , possibly developing from the monkey frescoes in the Knossos Labyrinth ; the monkey was not native to Crete and the animal may have been taken for a monster and so given an impulse to the creation of other monsters . |
| 27 | Like the rest of the staff , he wore a burgundy-coloured uniform although , apart from his name tag , it could have been taken for a regular formal suit . |
| 28 | If what he says in the scum book is true then how could we let that happen , surely Blackburn could have been squeezed for a goodly 3 squiddlys . |
| 29 | He looks like a leader , and his name could have been invented for a passport to cross the maze of ethnic boundaries . |