Example sentences of "that he had [been] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 3 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He told me that he had been asking for them , to no avail . |