Example sentences of "he had been [v-ing] 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 had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 4 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 5 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 6 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | as if whatever he had done had cut him off from the mercy he had been seeking for so long . |
| 13 | This was it , the confrontation-point which he had been dreading for the best part of a week . |
| 14 | In June , Roland found what he had been looking for . |
| 15 | He had been looking for a place to live . |
| 16 | The books and papers were wrapped in a silk cloth and , smiling , Craig knew he had found what he had been looking for . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He had been looking for the Face of Death . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had been looking for the omen Heather might have nerved herself to disregard . |
| 21 | The man claimed he had been looking for his girlfriend when challenged by staff members . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Buckby , who is also secretary of the Langbaurgh Schools Cross Country Association , said he had been trying for nearly ten years to have the rule changed . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Wordsworth 's poetic fluency had never been greater , and the landscape near Tintern Abbey , revisited after an absence of five years , released from him a stream of meditative blank verse quite different in style from the humble poems of rural life he had been writing for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 26 | HE REALIZED IN THAT instant that this was the love he had been hoping for , his quest fulfilled . |
| 27 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
| 28 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
| 29 | She marched down the stairs , and saw Jasper coming out of the sitting-room where , of course , he had been searching for her money . |
| 30 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |