Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] had been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The book was all he had been waiting for , and all was going according to plan . |
| 2 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 3 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 . |