Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [be] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Writing to the Countess of Rutland in 1670 from his ‘ uncouth cell ’ in the Fleet prison , where he had been committed for debt , Crowe was scathing about the quality of the tapestries produced by William , Earl of Craven [ q.v. ] , and his associates who had taken over from him at Mortlake in 1667 . |
| 2 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 3 | No but I mean , I do n't mean wh I do n't mean where he 's been working for the corporation , I mean before when he 's had these various jobs and they 've finished and he 's had , you know , the job 's finished and they 've had to go somewhere . |
| 4 | He 'd been ordered to report to the Ministry by his Adjutant , and either there had been some colossal mistake or he 'd been sent for under false pretences . |
| 5 | Although he had been nominated for the presidency by Civic Forum ( of which he was a founder member ) and PAV , it was understood that he would remain strictly neutral in the election campaign . |
| 6 | Although he had been immersed for days in Ridley 's exotic tale , searching out the coiling roots of Coleridge 's Kubla Khan , and although he knew intellectually that so many of these stories and poems were impregnated with an unconscious symbolism which later adventures into the human psyche were to make so much more explicit , he was temperamentally incapable of seeing the hidden meaning within this laborious passing from the ‘ dungeon of lust ’ into the pellucidly clear air of the mountains of Tasgi where voices shouted in exultation . |
| 7 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 8 | Most of the population have welcomed Mr Mladenov 's reforms , although he has been criticised for leaving some of Mr Zhivkov 's supporters in prominent positions . |
| 9 | The possibility that he had been killed for some reason connected with his father 's letters did not occur to Derek . |
| 10 | Shortly afterwards his father died : he felt that he had been punished for expecting too much . |
| 11 | He had joined up as Air Crew , and for several weeks had walked around proudly with the white flash in his cap , denoting that he had been selected for flying . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 14 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 15 | ‘ He was not in the premier division of drugs dealers in Belfast and police have no reason to contradict his assertion that he had been involved for a short time , ’ the Crown lawyer added . |
| 16 | In the following year his son-in-law ( Sir ) John Wolley [ q.v. ] told him that he had been recommended for the vice-presidency of Wales . |
| 17 | Could his intended victim have somehow guessed , from an unguarded look perhaps , that he had been marked for death ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was true he had had no stomach for the pallid lamb chops that he had been offered for lunch . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He told me that he had been asking for them , to no avail . |
| 24 | It agreed with the police that he had been arrested for cycling without due care and attention and that this had been sufficiently communicated to him . |
| 25 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 26 | Mr Gummer has used the guest house for every Tory conference since his student days and he told friends that he has been rewarded for his continued custom with the best room in the house . |
| 27 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 28 | I feel that he has been waiting for me to get home so he can demonstrate this talent . |
| 29 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |
| 30 | 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 . |