Example sentences of "[pron] had been [v-ing] for [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
| 2 | The canyon ran parallel to the continuation of the wadi which I had been following for days . |
| 3 | Repeated doses of bad news from the front generated mounting criticism of government incompetence ; ministerial confidence was visibly shaken ; and discontent which had been smouldering for years burst into flame . |
| 4 | For a start there were the Trumper 's advertisements on TV — a whole series of them , which had been running for years . |
| 5 | She had been intending for days to make a start on clearing out the cloakroom ; now was the moment — she would make a preliminary survey , set aside what should be kept , see if there was anything good enough for Oxfam . |
| 6 | It felt as if she had been travelling for days instead of only one , on and off , and she arrived as dusk was falling . |
| 7 | She was not unexpected ; she had been coming for months . |
| 8 | It never occurred to me that anyone who had been starving for years would feel an incredible , overwhelming urge to eat that was both physical and emotional . |
| 9 | Even more part of it than Rosie , who had been coming for years . |
| 10 | We had been looking for tasks that were : |
| 11 | By searching for flashes repeating at exactly the same rate as the radio pulses , they were able to investigate much fainter pulsations than if they had been looking for pulses occurring at an unknown rate . |
| 12 | They first told police they had been hunting for foxes . |
| 13 | MIT members were shown , in detail , the market which they had been trying for years to service . |
| 14 | THEY had been nit-picking for weeks . |
| 15 | Having accepted the ground rules , all the Grants appreciated and relished a structure that allowed a degree of communication they had been missing for years . |
| 16 | She did n't know if they had been driving for minutes or days . |
| 17 | Others have progressed rapidly in the beginning , only to experience considerable difficulty in overcoming the final hurdle — almost as though the mind was loath to give up a fear to which it had been clinging for years . |
| 18 | Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots . |
| 19 | It had been disintegrating for years , mainly because Durance had tired of that sort of pressure . |
| 20 | It had been waiting for weeks . |
| 21 | He scored another victory recently when the Labour Party abolished the unions ' block vote in the leadership elections , something he had been advocating for ages . |
| 22 | And just in case any men out there still need to be convinced that cleanliness is next to Robert Redfordness , how about the tale of a friend of mine who was desperate to impress a woman he had been pursuing for weeks . |