Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] for [noun prp] 's " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 3 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
| 4 | If Ebert had been paying for Axel 's debauchery , the chances were that he was behind the death of the girl . |
| 5 | Plato was not alone in believing that some kind of physical change must occur in the brain when information is stored in memory , and neuroscientists have been looking for Plato 's ‘ wax tablet ’ without success since the beginning of this century . |