Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] had [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had barely been gone for an hour when there came the signal that Thorfinn had been waiting for . |
| 2 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 3 | Her feeling was that Meryl had been waiting for someone … |
| 4 | It was widely known , however , that China had been pressing for a Japanese imperial visit for some time as a means of marking a further stage in the country 's rehabilitation from the diplomatic isolation which had followed the Tiananmen Square massacre . |
| 5 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 6 | He put aside being lonely for a moment , and realized that hunger had been waiting for an opportunity to make-itself felt . |
| 7 | Sure enough , next day saw a procession , only Lamb and Hussain passing thirty , although Smith batted for an hour with a broken finger and it was revealed that Hussain had been playing for five weeks with a broken bone in his wrist and Lamb had a cracked elbow . |
| 8 | If Ebert had been paying for Axel 's debauchery , the chances were that he was behind the death of the girl . |
| 9 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
| 10 | Dr Gilbert has pointed out that when the evangelist Hannah More remarked in 1789 on the existence of whole village populations no less estranged from the services of the Church than were heathens , she was belatedly recognising something which Wesley and Whitefield had been proclaiming for decades . |
| 11 | Donald and Elinor had been talking for thirty minutes . |
| 12 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 13 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 14 | If Philip had been looking for a pale , sickly , ragged and possibly fettered prisoner , Harry would be a considerable shock to him . |
| 15 | Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now . |
| 16 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |
| 17 | ‘ It seems as if John had been waiting for them to leave . |
| 18 | He has already been stripped of all his posts , but hardliners had been pressing for a public trial on criminal charges , though this looks unlikely . |
| 19 | She wondered whether Amy had been looking for the Julians or for her when she drove down the drive ? |
| 20 | Lukic looked a lot better by the end of the night , plucking out a few high balls as happily as Seaman had been doing for Arse all night . |