Example sentences of "had been [verb] aside for " in BNC.

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1 Eventually , they talked themselves out ; or at least the talk became overlaid by the preparations for the Christmas feast , only two weeks away , and those matters of business that had been laid aside for the Earl 's attention : the visits he had to make , and the people he had to see .
2 He reported that £1,000 had been set aside for proper surfacing of paths at Radford Park .
3 The last day had been set aside for a hunting trip , a full day out in the field , putting into practice , hopefully , all we had learned .
4 A room had been set aside for the investigation .
5 It had been set aside for no obvious purpose with a low table and several padded vinyl seats ; they were old and split with yellow foam bulging out , and on the walls were two art-school lithographs bearing optimistic prices .
6 A short time later , a car pulled into the underground drive-through that had been set aside for taxis and pick-ups at the mainline rail terminus .
7 The smallest of the three rooms had been set aside for the officer in charge ; it had a desk , a couple of chairs , and a telephone which , allegedly , would soon be functional .
8 Wycliffe went through to the little room which had been set aside for callers .
9 Parking the car in the small space beneath the house that had been set aside for it , Belinda skimmed silently up the back stairs .
10 An evening had been set aside for a get-together of the Branch 's top 50 clients to promote Special Savings Accounts .
11 The only substantial aid received by the government so far had been $300,000,000 from the United States agreed by the US Congress in May 1990 [ see p. 37450 ] , which had been gradually disbursed , except for $50,000,000 which had been set aside for clearing debt arrears .
12 With the approaching end of war in 1918 coalition became more positive because the coalition now had to deal with the issues that had been put aside for the duration , and more controversial because this pushed some Unionists into outright opposition .
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