Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [been] [v-ing] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 2 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 3 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 4 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 5 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 6 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 7 | I had been polishing it for what seemed hours and you could now see your face in it perfectly . |
| 8 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 9 | The Achilles ' tendon which had been bothering him for weeks finally gave out amid a sympathetic cheer and a great forward ambled to the sideline and out of the match with an hour gone . |
| 10 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 11 | You 'd been planning it for about |
| 12 | She deserved it , she 'd been tormenting me for weeks , calling me Comic Stripper because I told better jokes than she did . |
| 13 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 14 | She 'd been avoiding it for so long , but she had no choice about facing it now . |
| 15 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 16 | Claudia wanted to laugh out loud — that was what she had been telling him for days , but under the joy she was aware of fear making itself known . |
| 17 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 18 | She had been planning it for months now , and it was vitally important . |
| 19 | There were mill-owners in Bradford and Leeds who had been begging her for years to leave Old Ashfield and go to live with them in their fine houses . |
| 20 | Rain met people who had been avoiding her for months and others she had been dodging . |
| 21 | Since the approach was fairly new to all interviewed ( none had been operating it for more than nine months ) the responses may have more to do with expectations than experience , but nevertheless they serve to sketch out the potential of the care programme approach to affect every aspect of mental health care , for good or ill . |
| 22 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 23 | Eventually it was he who told her mother when she was about eight months pregnant : " We 'd been planning it for ages to tell them but we had n't had the nerve to get round to it . |
| 24 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |
| 25 | Well in that case and they 'd been stopping them for us you see and er excuse me stopping them for us and whoever decided to speak to them has had his few words and that 's it carry on . |
| 26 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 27 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 28 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 29 | He had been monopolising her for most of the evening , or trying to , and she was growing less and less happy about it . |
| 30 | Oh , but this is the Niersteiner , the last bottle , and it would n't go very well with beef ’ He had been saving it for Sophia 's birthday . |