Example sentences of "[pron] have been [v-ing] for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 2 | I had been campaigning for Dewey night and day for six months . |
| 3 | Butcher , who has been scouting for Sheffield Wednesday , turned out for their reserve side in a 2–1 Pontins League victory over Rotherham . |
| 4 | In the 19 years she has been working for Durham County Council 's social services the number of rehabilitation officers for the visually impaired has dropped to one . |
| 5 | She 'd been waiting for Christine , but Christine had n't come . |
| 6 | One day in the shop she 'd been waiting for Malcolm 's girlfriend and partner , Vivienne Westwood — they 'd been planning to go somewhere but Vivienne had n't turned up , she 'd phoned to tell this American girl that . |
| 7 | The man , who said his name was Dave , told detectives about a friend who 'd been looking for Carol shortly before she died . |
| 8 | Merlin , who 'd been covering for Paul and protecting the South Sussex 's goal , cleared once again , but Perdita blocked his shot . |
| 9 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 10 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
| 11 | Jessamy had been thinking about it while she had been waiting for Julius to return with the blankets , and she thought she knew the answer . |
| 12 | She had been waiting for Silas to assert himself and knew that sooner or later an outburst of authority must come from him . |
| 13 | The waitress who had been covering for Doyle behind the bar eyed the baseball bat questioningly when he returned . |
| 14 | We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin . |
| 15 | By the time Iran had attacked a Kuwaiti , a Saudi and then a Liberian tanker ( the last of these caught near the principal Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura ) , the GCC states had begun to recognize this sequence — as it was doubtless intended — as a signal to distance themselves from Iraq in the light of the support they had been providing for Baghdad . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , he has been caddying for Harley in Europe , and he did win one tournament and finished equal second in the other . |
| 17 | It had been unnerving for Martin and we had wasted a lot of time , but we pushed on to the final ridge . |
| 18 | In October , following a long silence , he finished two more of the autobiographical letters he had been writing for Tom Poole , providing in one of them , the most deeply-felt of all , his loving recollections of his father , and an account of the stormy night by the River Otter when he had almost died . |
| 19 | He had been searching for Morthen , to protect her from his violent half-brother , but she was nowhere to be found . |
| 20 | He had been playing for Hendon against Centaur , from West Drayton , Middlesex , when he was injured . |