Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] for the [noun] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	As an amateur jockey Pip has had eight National hunt wins this season and had been challenging for the Ladies Championship .
2	Mr Waterworth worked for an agency and had been driving for the Fewston Transport Company , of Skipton , at the time of the tragedy .
3	He had been looking for the omen Heather might have nerved herself to disregard .
4	He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl .
5	‘ It 's as if people have been waiting for the Autumn Statement . ’
6	Well , the sun 's been shining for the opening day of the Henley Royal Regatta .
7	Since his recovery , he 's been running for the Cancer Research Campaign .
8	Since his recovery , he 's been running for the Cancer Research Campaign .
9	Your , your arithmetic has really improved you know , you can do these things in your head now whereas not all that long ago you 'd have been reaching for the calculator thinking , oh I ca n't do that .
10	Yet it was just here that friction and innovation entered , for since the eleventh century church theorists — theologians and particularly canon lawyers — and successive popes had been claiming for the clergy immunities and privileges quite distinct from lay expectations .
11	Well everybody that was working for him had always worked in the quarries all their life , and they er they just been working for the slater company before the quarry shut down .
12	you work for erm Law Centre , erm , how long have you been working for the Law Centre ?
13	Been working for the Law Centre for three and a half years .
14	The case of Kenneth Littlejohn had been prominent in the news during the year and they had the impression that he had been working for the Home Office .
15	Mr Wilbraham , who is only 34 , had been working for the family shipping and engineering business until it was sold in 1987 .

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