Example sentences of "'d been [v-ing] for [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 2 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 3 | Mr Probyn is being questioned about the death of his wife , Tanya , who was 28 , and who 'd been missing for six days before her body was found in her car in the River Severn . |
| 4 | She 'd been missing for 24 hours , her disappearance reported by her boyfriend , himself arrested and questioned by police , but then released . |
| 5 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 6 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 8 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 9 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 10 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
| 11 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |