Example sentences of "be [v-ing] for he [subord] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been aching for him since she had first seen him straddling that bike with such lazy arrogance . |
| 2 | This crypt-room is so stuffy , the walls squeeze in , I 'm listening for him as I write , the thoughts I have are like bad drawings . |
| 3 | He half expected that the police would be waiting for him when he got back to the pub . |
| 4 | In fact they had known all about Crabb 's venture before they arrived at Portsmouth and their frogmen were waiting for him as he approached the cruiser . |
| 5 | Marion had seen his pennon on the galley , and was waiting for him as he walked tall and dignified behind the little girl . |
| 6 | She was glad she had the stone , when he came into the byre ; she was waiting for him as he had asked her to , she had made her way across the orchard in the fresh blue morning and let herself in through the wooden door by lifting it off its hinges , since the bolt had rusted fast long ago , and she had looked up at the full moon of the sky in the chimney hole at the centre of the round shelter 's roof , and with her stone which was sharp as a shearing knife with a bright , honed blade the marks of the whetstone were still visible in pale striations like scouring tracks — she scraped her name into one of the stones on the interior , as many others had done before her , in tall shapely capitals , the only letters she knew . |
| 7 | Lewis was waiting for him as he reached the road again . |
| 8 | And then , in an agony of desperate need and passion , she was reaching for him as his body came down upon hers . |