Example sentences of "when [pers pn] have be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs . |
| 2 | In the end , the quacks and medicine men were left with that strange , disembodied feeling you get when you 've been talking for several minutes to someone who is n't there . |
| 3 | When you have been teaching for as long as I have you 'll realise that it 's no good at all being kind to children . |
| 4 | In the launderette it was warm and cosy ; here Maggie made friends and fans and she had inconsequential conversations which mysteriously made her a member of the local community in a way she had never been when she had been fighting for the area 's well-being . |
| 5 | But why , when she 's been playing for so long , has millions in the bank and leads a very active life outside the tour , does she still have the desire to compete ? |
| 6 | The young man admitted in due course , when we had been driving for an hour , that he did not know the way and was totally lost . |
| 7 | Or so he seemed to Sairellen Thackray who preferred her leaders to have the mature dignity of a Richard Oastler , whom she had followed on foot those ninety miles to York and back when they had been campaigning for the ten hour working day . |
| 8 | Now when it 's been travelling for three hours it goes through Manchester . |
| 9 | Okay and when it 's been travelling for five hours it goes through erm what 's another station up there ? let's say Carlisle something like that . |
| 10 | And when it 's been travelling for seven hours it gets into Glasgow . |
| 11 | Now we 've got three points there it 's probably they they give you four here so we 'll do another one erm , when he 's been travelling for five hours how far 's he gone ? |