Example sentences of "he had been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 2 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 3 | ‘ He was not in the premier division of drugs dealers in Belfast and police have no reason to contradict his assertion that he had been involved for a short time , ’ the Crown lawyer added . |
| 4 | He had been criticized for failing to do enough to prevent a spate of serious attacks on foreign workers and asylum-seekers in the state , and had also been accused of working for the Stasi . |
| 5 | Latterly , he had been criticized for being more concerned about " restoring dignity to politics " and strengthening Slovenia 's Catholic and conservative traditions than about solving the economic problems resulting from communist rule and independence . |
| 6 | He had been earmarked for senior management and his posting to the US was intended to serve a double purpose . |
| 7 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 8 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 9 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 10 | His hair , untended , curled thick as a dog 's at his neck under a shapeless wool cap , and his mind was turned patently inwards ; far from seeking , or even thinking of the men from whom he had been parted for six weeks . |
| 11 | He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low . |
| 12 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Howard had , after a quick tour of the TARDIS , retired to his office with a brandy bottle he had been saving for a special occasion . |
| 15 | Essentially the case involved a youth leader of the Red Cross , who admitted joining the Red Cross to bring him closer to young girls , whom he had been abusing for thirty years . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Demirel had previously pledged to remove President Özal from power , but on Oct. 24 , possibly influenced by the narrowness of his party 's victory over the ANAP , he declared that Özal might continue as President — an office to which he had been elected for a seven-year term in October 1989 . |
| 18 | Douglas Gray of Middleton in Teesdale said he had been complaining for over two years about undelivered letters and hit out at the ‘ uncaring attitude ’ of the Post Office in Darlington . |
| 19 | In theory he had been prepared for it all along , but that it should happen now , right now … |
| 20 | as if whatever he had done had cut him off from the mercy he had been seeking for so long . |
| 21 | This was it , the confrontation-point which he had been dreading for the best part of a week . |
| 22 | In June , Roland found what he had been looking for . |
| 23 | He had been looking for a place to live . |
| 24 | The books and papers were wrapped in a silk cloth and , smiling , Craig knew he had found what he had been looking for . |
| 25 | He saw the hideous face of the huge thrashing thing before him , superimposed on that blank mask , and knew that it was the face he had been looking for since the death of his wife and son . |
| 26 | He had been looking for the Face of Death . |
| 27 | He was inclined to believe he had been looking for an excuse to ring her , which was foolish because he did not need an excuse . |
| 28 | He had been looking for the omen Heather might have nerved herself to disregard . |
| 29 | The man claimed he had been looking for his girlfriend when challenged by staff members . |
| 30 | By now he was of an age to make his own decisions , the first of which was to marry the English girl to whom he had been engaged for two years . |