Example sentences of "[vb past] [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 . |
| 12 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 13 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 14 | Alexei had been listening for other footsteps coming along the bridge . |
| 15 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains running at less flexible times . |
| 16 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains at less flexible times . |
| 17 | Indeed , I recall being present at a formal state banquet in Malawi when the Life President , His Excellency the very elderly Dr Hastings Banda , had been speaking for 45 minutes proposing the toast and had still only reached 1947 . |
| 18 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 19 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 20 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 21 | To judge by the clutter of bottles , glasses , and over-filled ashtrays , and the brooding , weary faces , they had been debating for many hours . |
| 22 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 23 | Eve had n't known that Birdie Mac who ran the sweet shop had a man from Ballylee who had been calling for fifteen years , but she would n't leave her old mother and the man from Ballylee would n't come to Knockglen . |
| 24 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 25 | By the time he and Norman strode out to try to win the 1986 British Open , Bender had been caddying for eighteen years , having picked up his first serious bag when he was 18 years old . |
| 26 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 27 | James Ousley , chief executive officer of the Control Data Systems Inc spin-out , says its former parent , Control Data Corp — now divided into two separate companies ( UX No 387 ) — had been looking for additional capital for a number of years , but was not able to tempt any investors to bankroll an organisation with interests as diverse as proprietary mainframes , Unix , military and government software and services and a lottery business . |
| 28 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The group had been meeting for two years , and it was mainly a consciousness-raising group , although , with only about twenty groups in London as a whole , some of them , the ‘ housewives ’ , the women who worked part-time were also able to help run the voluntary rota in the central London office , the Women 's Liberation Workshop . |