Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he had to go and train somewhere down south , but he 's got a he , apparently he 'd been trying for a year and he 's got to Accrington . |
| 2 | The book was all he had been waiting for , and all was going according to plan . |
| 3 | So he 'd been looking for her . |
| 4 | Since then he 's been waiting for him higher up on various tracks . |
| 5 | After switching codes at the age of 11 when he moved to senior school , he began life as a flanker and it was not until 1973 , when he had been playing for seven years , that he moved to tight-head prop . |
| 6 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 7 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
| 8 | Do n't you want to know why he 's been looking for you ? ’ |