Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the story of a lifetime , the story I had been born for . |
| 2 | I must say , something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits ; the simple kindness I had been thanked for , and the simple kindness I had been offered in return , caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days . |
| 3 | Maybe this was the break they had been waiting for . |
| 4 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 5 | Although Eliot considered this idea a good one , especially in view of the articles I had been writing for the New English Weekly ( for example , ‘ Italy must Choose ; and ‘ An Open Letter to Ansaldo ’ , which Mairet had forwarded to the spokesman in question and also to the Vatican ) , he felt that such a book issued in time of war , would need official backing . |
| 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 | Rain said : ‘ If Sabine Jourdain planned to reveal how much of Durance 's work she 'd been doing for him , a lot of people would have preferred she did n't . ’ |
| 8 | In her days as a schoolteacher she 'd been known for the quickness of her wit and her clarity of thought . |
| 9 | Nell guessed from the centrifuges and freezers what type of work they had been designed for . |
| 10 | By the time of Fritz and Hitzig 's work it had been known for nearly a century that electrical stimulation of nervous tissue would produce movements . |
| 11 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 12 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 13 | The moment I 'd been waiting for so long had arrived . |
| 14 | All I wanted was to be left alone to get on with the job I 'd been trained for and loved . |
| 15 | The moment she 'd been waiting for . |
| 16 | Now was the moment she had been waiting for . |
| 17 | One day in the shop she 'd been waiting for Malcolm 's girlfriend and partner , Vivienne Westwood — they 'd been planning to go somewhere but Vivienne had n't turned up , she 'd phoned to tell this American girl that . |
| 18 | By the end of the " thirties , Aunt Tossie wondered for how many years she had been paying for interesting yearlings , and with very uninteresting results . |
| 19 | But she 'd taken an instant liking to you and for years she 'd been agitating for me to settle down . ’ |
| 20 | There was restrained optimism among Wickham 's team that this could be the lead they had been waiting for . |
| 21 | This was the moment he had been waiting for since his ordination . |
| 22 | Roddy Lou Thai was not pleased at all to be questioned by two representatives of the repressive Imperialist Government , under whose chauvinistic wing he had been living for four years . |
| 23 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 24 | Also , the mic was n't giving off the warm , mucky sound he 'd been going for . |
| 25 | At one time so many people from the area were hanged at Newgate it had been nicknamed Jack Ketch 's Warren , and according to Paddy it had been known for as many as forty constables to march down with cutlasses to control disturbances . |
| 26 | One afternoon we had been taken for a walk up to the top of the mountain behind the camp , which had been good exercise ; from the top I had been able to see the sea . |
| 27 | The man gave a grunt , which was the permission we had been waiting for , and I ran all the way back to my flat to change and conduct the concert . |
| 28 | For her parents Fran and Les , it was the day they had been waiting for . |
| 29 | Meanwhile I continued the strategy I had been following for the previous two terms : feigning compliance with the authorities and responding co-operatively to their apparent concern , while continuing to eat minimally and to purge in secret . |
| 30 | Some items I 'd been holding for him . |