Example sentences of "it had been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Others have progressed rapidly in the beginning , only to experience considerable difficulty in overcoming the final hurdle — almost as though the mind was loath to give up a fear to which it had been clinging for years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots . |
| 4 | The garden city lobby alleged that the vested interests of London had worked against a decentralist approach , for which it had been striving for many years , and F.J. Osborn acknowledged in correspondence with Lewis Mumford that the Plan was a bitter disappointment to him and the Town and Country Planning Association ( TCPA ) : |
| 5 | It had been raining for over three hours , and the hide Duncan lay in was filled with water . |
| 6 | Labour attempted to pre-empt any jobs package by stressing yesterday that it had been pressing for such measures since before Christmas . |
| 7 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 8 | Anyhow , it had been going for a very short time , not very satisfactory , because none of us really were very successful with our machine , and then a … messenger came in to say that a [ radio ] taxi driver had come into No. 10 to say he 's heard everything going on in his taxi in Whitehall . |
| 9 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 10 | Oh it had been going for quite some time , I do n't know really when they would start . |
| 11 | Do you know Dave I read erm we there 's a magazine called Good Housekeeping and it 's been going for it had been going for seventy years , last year it started in nineteen twenty one , women 's magazine , very good one and they had a sort of seventieth birthday issue |
| 12 | The second whinnied and moved back a step to graze the spot it had been coveting for the past hour . |
| 13 | It had been unnerving for Martin and we had wasted a lot of time , but we pushed on to the final ridge . |
| 14 | some painting of some homes in er a desert at night , it had been missing for er nearly a century |
| 15 | It had been disintegrating for years , mainly because Durance had tired of that sort of pressure . |
| 16 | It had been waiting for weeks . |
| 17 | Theodora replaced the mouthpiece and the telephone shrilled again as though it had been waiting for her to release its ring . |