Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [be] [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 3 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 4 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 5 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 6 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 7 | My flight path ended on a small ledge , my hands still grasping Olympus camera which I had been cradling for all my worth , regardless of the blows striking my body from every angle . |
| 8 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 9 | I had been working for more than an hour and my wrists ached from the continuous chopping , but I was filled with an immense exhilaration . |
| 10 | The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving . |
| 11 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 12 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 13 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | She had been talking for several minutes about a party she had been to the previous evening . |
| 16 | It was the one she had been rehearsing for all her life — that of martyr . |
| 17 | I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government . |
| 18 | We had been affianced for some weeks . ’ |
| 19 | They posed for photographers at the star-studded show , giving the lie to rumours they had been separated for several weeks . |
| 20 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 21 | When they had been seated for some time Titch said : ‘ I suppose you 've heard the news ? ’ |
| 22 | He went from house to house dragging two metal ingots and everybody was amazed to see pots , pans , tongs and braziers tumble down from their places and beams creak from the desperation of nails and screws trying to emerge , and even objects that had been lost for a long time appeared from where they had been searched for most and went dragging along in turbulent confusion behind Melquíades ' magical irons . |
| 23 | To judge by the clutter of bottles , glasses , and over-filled ashtrays , and the brooding , weary faces , they had been debating for many hours . |
| 24 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 25 | She had brought glasses and dishes from home , she said ; they had been boxed for many years too long . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |
| 27 | But they had been chosen for some little time already . |
| 28 | They had been provided for many years by the YWCA , and other urban based and normally middle class-run charitable societies dispensing relief and assistance . |
| 29 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 30 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |