Example sentences of "he [verb] been [v-ing] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been looking for pollen , the other standby of people who study ancient plants . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , he has been caddying for Harley in Europe , and he did win one tournament and finished equal second in the other . |
| 3 | He 'd been hoping for windows , and a view over the bay or the town . |
| 4 | He 'd been driving for days , he 'd forgotten how many , and he was tired of the white lines painted down the middle of the highway , he was tired to the centre of his bones . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In October , following a long silence , he finished two more of the autobiographical letters he had been writing for Tom Poole , providing in one of them , the most deeply-felt of all , his loving recollections of his father , and an account of the stormy night by the River Otter when he had almost died . |
| 7 | He had been searching for Morthen , to protect her from his violent half-brother , but she was nowhere to be found . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 10 | He had been playing for Hendon against Centaur , from West Drayton , Middlesex , when he was injured . |
| 11 | Of course he had been working for Hut 6 from the day of his arrival at Bletchley and his duties soon became important . |
| 12 | Everyone thought Pratesi was the buyer because he 's been talking for years about building a bigger place , rearing his own pigs and growing his own feed . |
| 13 | He 's been canoeing for years . |