Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] for [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other Administration figures had been calling for Bush to boycott the meeting , on the grounds that the US was coming in for excessive criticism . |
| 2 | He told officers that his friend had been looking for Carol in Bristol on the Friday before she died . |
| 3 | He had been searching for Morthen , to protect her from his violent half-brother , but she was nowhere to be found . |
| 4 | By the time Iran had attacked a Kuwaiti , a Saudi and then a Liberian tanker ( the last of these caught near the principal Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura ) , the GCC states had begun to recognize this sequence — as it was doubtless intended — as a signal to distance themselves from Iraq in the light of the support they had been providing for Baghdad . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 7 | I had been campaigning for Dewey night and day for six months . |
| 8 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
| 9 | The government had already agreed to meeting Unita this week and the UN had been waiting for Unita to set the date , UN officials said . |
| 10 | Jessamy had been thinking about it while she had been waiting for Julius to return with the blankets , and she thought she knew the answer . |
| 11 | She had been waiting for Silas to assert himself and knew that sooner or later an outburst of authority must come from him . |
| 12 | If Ebert had been paying for Axel 's debauchery , the chances were that he was behind the death of the girl . |
| 13 | It had been unnerving for Martin and we had wasted a lot of time , but we pushed on to the final ridge . |
| 14 | The last few weeks , indeed the last year , had been appalling for Britain , and as Churchill said — ad nauseam , in Erica 's view — Britain stood alone . |
| 15 | The waitress who had been covering for Doyle behind the bar eyed the baseball bat questioningly when he returned . |
| 16 | Graham Bowstead , Bob Hodgson and Ray Cargill , all Englishmen , had been working for William Lee in London but were on the look out for opportunities to branch out on their own . |
| 17 | Hawksmoor had been working for Wren since he was 18 and Castle Howard was very probably modelled on Wren 's proposed plan for Hampton Court ( which never got beyond the drawing board ) . |
| 18 | And , the way things had been going for Gerhard Berger , it was perhaps no surprise that it should be his McLaren which would suffer that fate . |
| 19 | In December 1989 officials refused to comment on reports that nine men arrested by police in August had been spying for Singapore . |
| 20 | He had been playing for Hendon against Centaur , from West Drayton , Middlesex , when he was injured . |
| 21 | The incident happened on Saturday after Mr Pollard had been playing for Newent Town . |
| 22 | The incident happened on Saturday after Mr Pollard had been playing for Newent Town . |
| 23 | The incident happened on Saturday after Mr Pollard had been playing for Newent Town . |
| 24 | The incident happened on Saturday after Mr Pollard had been playing for Newent Town . |