Example sentences of "[noun sg] he had been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 2 | This was the moment he had been waiting for since his ordination . |
| 3 | Roddy Lou Thai was not pleased at all to be questioned by two representatives of the repressive Imperialist Government , under whose chauvinistic wing he had been living for four years . |
| 4 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 5 | And just in case any men out there still need to be convinced that cleanliness is next to Robert Redfordness , how about the tale of a friend of mine who was desperate to impress a woman he had been pursuing for weeks . |
| 6 | as if whatever he had done had cut him off from the mercy he had been seeking for so long . |
| 7 | Wordsworth 's poetic fluency had never been greater , and the landscape near Tintern Abbey , revisited after an absence of five years , released from him a stream of meditative blank verse quite different in style from the humble poems of rural life he had been writing for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 8 | HE REALIZED IN THAT instant that this was the love he had been hoping for , his quest fulfilled . |
| 9 | Of course he had been working for Hut 6 from the day of his arrival at Bletchley and his duties soon became important . |
| 10 | Poor old Ken Brown , frustrated beyond his tolerance level , slid from the pedestal he had been erecting for himself following early and rebellious years , when , during the Murphy Cup at St. Pierre , his driver and a wooden tee box converged at not inconsiderable speed . |
| 11 | Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man . |
| 12 | Howard had , after a quick tour of the TARDIS , retired to his office with a brandy bottle he had been saving for a special occasion . |
| 13 | He saw the hideous face of the huge thrashing thing before him , superimposed on that blank mask , and knew that it was the face he had been looking for since the death of his wife and son . |
| 14 | I 'm sure that if he had said something he never have betrayed the pain he had been guarding for a long time . |