Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [pn reflx] for [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 2 | I had been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , he typed , as Harsnet had written . |
| 3 | That is why , wrote Harsnet , I have been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , that is why I have cleared the decks and prepared the ground , because unless the decks are cleared and the g round prepared there is little hope of succeeding in what one has planned to do , little hope of achieving anything of lasting value , though lasting is a relative term and so is value and whatever it is one has planned to do is certain to be altered in the process , which does not of course mean , he wrote , that one can start anywhere at any time . |
| 4 | All my life , he wrote , I have been preparing myself for this moment , but if I have prepared myself correctly then it is so that when the moment came I should not be encumbered with the sensation of having waited for it all my life , for such a sensation , wrote Harsnet , is too heavy a burden for anyone to carry . |
| 5 | Additionally , there may be a number of general domestic or luxury items which you had been promising yourself for some time and the only question is one of actual timing , i.e. determining the right moment to buy . |