Example sentences of "he [vb past] [be] [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he 'd been followed for the last week or so . |
| 2 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 3 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 4 | And he 'd been braced for the knife lunging out of the darkness . |
| 5 | In 1969 Josef Frolik of the Czechoslovakian intelligence service defected to the CIA with his wife and proceeded to give some startling information about numerous British Labour Party politicians and trade union officials who he claimed were working for the KGB . |
| 6 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 7 | This was it , the confrontation-point which he had been dreading for the best part of a week . |
| 8 | He had been looking for the Face of Death . |
| 9 | He had been looking for the omen Heather might have nerved herself to disregard . |
| 10 | Wordsworth 's poetic fluency had never been greater , and the landscape near Tintern Abbey , revisited after an absence of five years , released from him a stream of meditative blank verse quite different in style from the humble poems of rural life he had been writing for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 11 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 12 | Then Andy took his wedge , which he had been swinging for the last ten minutes , and hit the perfect , or apparently perfect shot , straight at the flag . |
| 13 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
| 14 | He said he had been paid for the picture , but admitted that ‘ in order to entice bidders ’ he had agreed with Sotheby 's that payment would be spread over three instalments . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 18 | He had been pressing for the opportunity to abandon himself , free of dogma , and here it was . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had been working for the Cyrenians at an annex to the Simon House Hostel for the Homeless in Rectory Road Oxford . |
| 21 | His games connection that year was more than just a marketing one ; it was also the third time he had been chosen for the Scotland team as a pole-vaulter . |
| 22 | 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 ? |