Example sentences of "he had [been] [v-ing] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 2 | He had been monopolising her for most of the evening , or trying to , and she was growing less and less happy about it . |
| 3 | Oh , but this is the Niersteiner , the last bottle , and it would n't go very well with beef ’ He had been saving it for Sophia 's birthday . |
| 4 | It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg . |
| 5 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 6 | Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days . |
| 7 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |
| 8 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
| 9 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |