Example sentences of "[pron] had be [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The biggest problem and disappointment was that the international rig count continued downwards and that was where we had been hoping for increased sales and increased market share looking into this year and into the last part of last year . |
| 4 | A judge told William Sim and David Todd that they had been playing for high stakes and had to pay the penalty . |
| 5 | They had been waiting for high water so that they could sail alongside in a civilised manner . |