Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] been [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well they were , the ward committee had been seeking for a , a candidate , but I had no opposition at that time at all . |
| 2 | Due to the fact that his marriage had been heading for the rocks ? |
| 3 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 4 | The embattled Chancellor had been hoping for a public show of loyalty from the Prime Minister . |
| 5 | I suspected that he was hoping to hear that the senator had been arranging for an illicit love affair on board Wavebreaker . |
| 6 | It was as if a sick national organism had been waiting for the right , suitably appalling , symptom to erupt into general protest at its fate . |
| 7 | The health authority had been looking for a site since 1989 but found difficulty in obtaining suitable premises in terms of locality , accessibility and size of ground floor accommodation . |
| 8 | He put aside being lonely for a moment , and realized that hunger had been waiting for an opportunity to make-itself felt . |
| 9 | While John Paul Jones had been captivating the ladies of Paris the French government had been preparing for the most serious attack on England since the Dutch incursion into the Medway . |
| 10 | AAIB investigation showed that the main rotor drive had been running for a period with the chain displaced downwards on the large sprocket ( ie.e in the axial direction of the sprocket ) approximately half a tooth . |
| 11 | Pressure had been growing for a change of leadership since the failure of Peres to form a government in April [ see pp. 37391-2 ] . |
| 12 | Sighing , Tim 's father said the family knew the country had been praying for the 12-year-old . |
| 13 | Dr Simon Newell , in charge of the neonatal unit , said the couple had been trying for a baby for seven years and Mrs Vince had been undergoing fertility treatment for five years . |
| 14 | They could get hot water , but only after the fire had been going for a while and the back boiler had heated up . |
| 15 | Miss Gregg told detectives her mother had been waiting for the handyman to call at the time of her death . |
| 16 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party had been looking for an excuse to reward its friends in the building industry for their financial support . |