Example sentences of "[pron] had been [v-ing] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I had been polishing it for what seemed hours and you could now see your face in it perfectly . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 11 | She had been planning it for months now , and it was vitally important . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Rain met people who had been avoiding her for months and others she had been dodging . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 16 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 17 | He had been monopolising her for most of the evening , or trying to , and she was growing less and less happy about it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg . |
| 20 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 21 | Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days . |
| 22 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |
| 23 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
| 24 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |