Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [been] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 2 | Chris had insisted that if he was going to go out there , then so was I. I 'd been searching for a way out all night , but nothing convincing came to mind . |
| 3 | Ever since I started consultancy work in politics , I 'd been pushing for the use of this simple invention — a British one — but it was n't until after President Reagan used it in his address to the Houses of Parliament that our politicians felt it was worthy of notice . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd been looking for a fairly young product which had a range of merchandise to allow a shop to stand on its own two feet . |
| 5 | Equally the use of ebony seemed a good choice ; I 'd been looking for an excuse to make something in ebony for ages , anyway ! |
| 6 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 7 | No , not just one day , as I said , I 'd been trying for a few |
| 8 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 9 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 10 | It might have been a delayed reaction to the drugs I had been taking for an operation I 'd recently had on my foot , but this seemed unlikely . |
| 11 | And I had been loading for the Major the last time that I was out shooting , the last time for me like . |
| 12 | Although Eliot considered this idea a good one , especially in view of the articles I had been writing for the New English Weekly ( for example , ‘ Italy must Choose ; and ‘ An Open Letter to Ansaldo ’ , which Mairet had forwarded to the spokesman in question and also to the Vatican ) , he felt that such a book issued in time of war , would need official backing . |
| 13 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
| 14 | I had been trying for a year to obtain some black Amazon wood for my Discus tank , but my local dealers did not stock it . |
| 15 | If I had been looking for a lover — I admit my husband 's fortunes were not at their brightest , and my friendship with the Philosopher was a little turbulent at that time — then I should not have chosen Gustave . |
| 16 | I had been looking for a full-length piece to do anyway and I was also attracted to the idea of working with a ballet company . ’ |
| 17 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 18 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 19 | When I replied that I had been fighting for the extra 200,000 I had managed to achieve , I was remonstrated with for having put the business at risk . |
| 20 | Meanwhile I continued the strategy I had been following for the previous two terms : feigning compliance with the authorities and responding co-operatively to their apparent concern , while continuing to eat minimally and to purge in secret . |
| 21 | I had been working for the Countess as a personal assistant since she married the Earl in 1976 . |
| 22 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |
| 23 | So , you did so many miles per hour , we calculated , you would have done so many miles if you 'd been going for a full hour at that speed , so your dis your , your speed , velocity really but we 'll call it speed , right ? |
| 24 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 25 | She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by . |
| 26 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 27 | She 'd been digging for a while when she looked up to swing the stone in her hand on to the pile , and saw Clare standing there . |
| 28 | Subconsciously , she realised , she 'd been hoping for a ready answer , an explanation which would clear her niggling doubts … |
| 29 | She had been hoping for a ‘ jobs Budget ’ to fulfil a great need in East Anglia where there had been a big increase in unemployment . |
| 30 | Sophie 's voice dipped in disappointment , as if she had been hoping for a graphic account of overturned furniture and blood on the walls . |