Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] for some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 2 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 3 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 4 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The phone had been ringing for some time . |
| 7 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 10 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 13 | Abingdon 's trade had been waning for some time , with its fulling mills lying in ruins and unemployment rife by 1538 . |
| 14 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 15 | ‘ Our information is that Mr Evans left the Club in order to go and see what was delaying the arrival of his wife whom he had been expecting for some time . ’ |
| 16 | The London General Omnibus Company had been experimenting for some years and , in 1910 introduced to the streets of London , their ‘ B ’ type , petrol engined , double-decker , opened top buses . |
| 17 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 18 | The vote resolved a constitutional crisis which had been brewing for some months and which had centred around Slovak demands for far-reaching autonomy in most areas of policy . |
| 19 | The document inevitably evoked much discussion within the Principality , and the WJEC , for example , responded by advocating a solution which it had been cherishing for some time , namely the creation of a small advisory body made up of representatives of three bodies : the Welsh Office ; the Welsh Counties Committee , consisting of local authority representatives ; and the WJEC . |
| 20 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 21 | The Schuman Plan was based on ideas which had been circulating for some time but was devised in detail by Jean Monnet , who was in charge of France 's economic modernisation programme . |
| 22 | It may also have been that the government was unwilling to lend further strength to the clamour for the reform of the Official Secrets Act ( which has now happened ) that had been mounting for some years . |
| 23 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |
| 25 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 26 | Carlson had been wondering for some time what was actually going on . |
| 27 | In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ . |
| 28 | The power of Chaos had been growing for some years . |
| 29 | This was 2,000,000 above the previous figures but within the wide range the organization had been estimating for some time . |
| 30 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |