Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [verb] for [det] [noun sg] " 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 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 4 | It had been recognised for some time that only through rationalisation into larger productive and distributive units could the movement overcome the damaging rivalries among societies in the same neighbourhood , and through economies of scale promote further growth . |
| 5 | Another suggestion was that an entire class of LMS express locomotives had been withdrawn for some reason . |
| 6 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 7 | The consultative document published in 1987 followed the principle that had been acknowledged for some time , drawing a distinction between essential items which were to remain free , and desirable but not essential items for which charges could be made , a distinction not in practice very easy to make . |
| 8 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 9 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 10 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 11 | The phone had been ringing for some time . |
| 12 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 13 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 14 | Concern had been voiced for some time by the Office of Fair Trading ( OFT ) as to the restrictive practices maintained by the Stock Exchange : |
| 15 | Relations between the Meskhetians and the Uzbek majority had been strained for some time , largely as a result of the poor housing and other conditions in which the Meskhetians had been forced to remain ( many still lived in shanty towns , and levels of unemployment were higher than elsewhere in the republic ) . |
| 16 | When they had been seated for some time Titch said : ‘ I suppose you 've heard the news ? ’ |
| 17 | Though since to find an alternative word was n't going to alter matters at all by the look of it , Fabia began to wonder if perhaps Vendelin Gajdusek was coming back from Prague today to keep his appointment but had been delayed for some reason or another . |
| 18 | On Sept. 17 it was announced that the defence and economic co-operation accord between the USA and Turkey had been extended for another year . |
| 19 | The Battersea Congress of the Party , to which this complaint was later addressed , gave official backing to a scheme which had been projected for some time , a Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition to unite the various unofficial movements which had been growing up in many important unions . |
| 20 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 21 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 22 | As is traditional , the trophies which were won throughout the year had been saved for this occasion and presented to their recipients after dinner . |
| 23 | Moreover , provision had been made for any firm that might become financially insolvent ; in this way , systemic risk was largely averted . |
| 24 | She was happily thinking , Serves him right , a pity there was n't a cloudburst , when across the car park , in an area where the top managers of Vasey 's normally parked their cars , she noticed that room had been made for another car . |
| 25 | No contingency plans had been made for this eventuality . |
| 26 | Bomber Command itself was situated at High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire and from there the orders were sent out every day to each Group Headquarters , indicating which target had been selected for that night 's operation , and the Groups then sent on the information to the Commanding Officers at each of the air fields , or ‘ out-stations ’ . |
| 27 | There is little doubt also that within the DES the binary solution had been canvassed for some time , and throughout the life of the Robbins Committee interest in it was being shown in the Association of Teachers in Technical Institutes and elsewhere . |
| 28 | He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low . |
| 29 | Abingdon 's trade had been waning for some time , with its fulling mills lying in ruins and unemployment rife by 1538 . |
| 30 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |