Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] 'd [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rain said : ‘ If Sabine Jourdain planned to reveal how much of Durance 's work she 'd been doing for him , a lot of people would have preferred she did n't . ’ |
| 2 | The moment I 'd been waiting for so long had arrived . |
| 3 | The moment she 'd been waiting for . |
| 4 | One day in the shop she 'd been waiting for Malcolm 's girlfriend and partner , Vivienne Westwood — they 'd been planning to go somewhere but Vivienne had n't turned up , she 'd phoned to tell this American girl that . |
| 5 | Also , the mic was n't giving off the warm , mucky sound he 'd been going for . |
| 6 | I also had a look at the fact that Toby might well be — or have been — the man I 'd been waiting for , though God knows I 'd never have recognized him in a million years if we had n't happened , entirely by accident , to stumble into each other 's arms . |
| 7 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
| 8 | All that bottled-up vitriol for the man he 'd been waiting for had actually been for her . |
| 9 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 10 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |