Example sentences of "[noun pl] had be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of the recession , stockpiles of ‘ new ’ cars had been waiting for a buyer for up to two years . |
| 2 | Below them , a large group of human subjects had been circling for hours around a roller rink set among the trees . |
| 3 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
| 4 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 5 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 6 | During the final rehearsals for the 1962 Berlin recording of the Ninth , Karajan discovered that for years in the Finale 's ‘ adagio ma non troppo , ma divoto ’ the Berlin violas had been annexing for themselves the top line in a passage that is richly divided . |
| 7 | Guests had been arriving for some time , for they had heard cars coming and going , but she had n't met any yet . |
| 8 | But the Cossacks had been fighting for the Germans and the British Army 's main concern in Austria in May 1945 was to comply with the Yalta agreement ordering repatriation so that the Russians would honour a promise to return British prisoners of war . |
| 9 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 10 | The last years had been alarming for his chauffeur . |
| 11 | The last years had been alarming for his chauffeur . |
| 12 | He has already been stripped of all his posts , but hardliners had been pressing for a public trial on criminal charges , though this looks unlikely . |
| 13 | The ancient Egyptians had been trying for centuries to prevent the export of their sacred felines . |
| 14 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 15 | For a long time the industrious Bavarians had been preparing for such an attack . |
| 16 | And , the way things had been going for Gerhard Berger , it was perhaps no surprise that it should be his McLaren which would suffer that fate . |
| 17 | Other Administration figures had been calling for Bush to boycott the meeting , on the grounds that the US was coming in for excessive criticism . |
| 18 | Several of the Board 's leading civil servants had been pressing for more equality in provision . |
| 19 | Profits had been falling for some years ; investment collapsed suddenly in summer 1974 . |
| 20 | About half of the patients had been waiting for their notes for less than six weeks , but 19 had been waiting for over six months , 14 for over a year , and six for over two years . |
| 21 | After all , the National Association of Labour Teachers had been pressing for Common Schools since 1930 . |
| 22 | Certainly Terry , Brian and I knew that close friends had been campaigning for us and that that experience could have changed them , just as we 'd been changed by what we had gone through . |
| 23 | The reason for his pleasure , as well as for the handkerchief 's greyness , was that he had washed it himself … and really he had done just as good a job as the dhobi had been doing for the most extravagant prices . |
| 24 | Virgin 's application was just the bargaining chip the Americans had been looking for . |
| 25 | Alexei had been listening for other footsteps coming along the bridge . |
| 26 | An hour later the village bobby was let into the house by Mr Lawson , and shortly afterwards they emerged together for the Chancellor to give the message the world 's money markets had been waiting for . |
| 27 | The travellers had been driving for six hours , and as the meter in the cab had been showing a steady sixty miles an hour , they must have covered over three hundred and fifty miles . |
| 28 | Many of these children had been attending for a long time , so they already knew many things , specially the important things like how to stand in line and what to do when your pen-nib broke . |
| 29 | Mrs Singh was upset ; she felt rejected by the school her children had been attending for five years . |
| 30 | In 1984–5 , most of the courses in all institutions had been running for less than five years , though about a third of courses in Colleges , including nearly half the B Ed Primary courses had been operating in the way described for more than five years . |