Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] had been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe this was the break they had been waiting for . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 7 | Now was the moment she had been waiting for . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There was restrained optimism among Wickham 's team that this could be the lead they had been waiting for . |
| 10 | This was the moment he had been waiting for since his ordination . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For her parents Fran and Les , it was the day they had been waiting for . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She guessed it would be Nicky Kai , eager to hear her singing the praises of her beloved island once more , and she might be willing to stay and share the light supper she had been planning for herself as it was Sunday , the one evening of the week on which Florian might occasionally make a concession to the fact of his breakfast show slot and retire soon after dark . |
| 17 | He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house . |
| 18 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 19 | And just in case any men out there still need to be convinced that cleanliness is next to Robert Redfordness , how about the tale of a friend of mine who was desperate to impress a woman he had been pursuing for weeks . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 22 | The parents were outraged ; the managers had got the opportunity they had been waiting for . |
| 23 | It so happened that the firm I had been working for ( manufacturers of rubber-coats , ground-sheets , etc. ) had closed down the Glasgow Office and factory , and I was without work . |
| 24 | In the end , Clara , exasperated beyond endurance , brought up once more the possibility of cremation ( not daring to mention , even in her own mind , which had not quite forsaken filial tenderness , the possibility of the once-praised dust cart ) and Mrs Maugham , square , immutable , said quite astonishingly for her , and invoking sanctions she had been deriding for thirty years , that ashes must go to ashes and dust to dust . |
| 25 | Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two . |
| 26 | A crowd of eager customers would be awaiting his arrival outside the shops and attack him for the particular colour , size or style of dress they had been waiting for . |
| 27 | Having accepted the ground rules , all the Grants appreciated and relished a structure that allowed a degree of communication they had been missing for years . |
| 28 | as if whatever he had done had cut him off from the mercy he had been seeking for so long . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | HE REALIZED IN THAT instant that this was the love he had been hoping for , his quest fulfilled . |