Example sentences of "[pron] she had [been] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
| 2 | Friends say she never recovered from hearing Gilbey , who she had been dating for two years , tell Diana he loved her — 53 times in the 23 minute call . |
| 3 | It was the one she had been rehearsing for all her life — that of martyr . |
| 4 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 5 | That was what she had been waiting for , that unguarded , unforced , totally natural reaction of a lowly apprentice who sees her work unfold like a fairytale . |
| 6 | And that , then , was what she had been waiting for . |
| 7 | This was what she had been waiting for since she had first met him though she had never admitted it to herself until now . |