Example sentences of "[conj] he had [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 2 | After his exit from Monday 's semi-finals , Black revealed that he had been struggling for five years with a ‘ bio-mechanical ’ problem which affects his body balance and leads to other injuries . |
| 3 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 4 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 5 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
| 6 | In February 1756 reference is made to four illustrations ‘ sent some time since by our friend , Mr. Collinson ’ and Miller said he would have sent others except for the fact that he had been waiting for better colourists . |
| 7 | One particularly nasty German television journalist informed me that he had been waiting for a month and if anyone was getting near Ortega , it was him . |
| 8 | The case of Kenneth Littlejohn had been prominent in the news during the year and they had the impression that he had been working for the Home Office . |
| 9 | He told me that he had been asking for them , to no avail . |
| 10 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 11 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
| 12 | If he had been working for three days and three nights then it was in the suit he was wearing now , and his shoes had mud on them , and Erlich did n't think Ruane would be impressed . |
| 13 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 14 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 15 | And who was it who said that when he agreed to play the Devil in the Witches of Eastwick , it was because he had been practising for the role all his life ? |
| 16 | ‘ Nutrition , ’ John said , after he had been working for a short time . |
| 17 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |