Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been [verb] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been loading for him , loading the t coal into tubs and tramming them . |
| 2 | Some items I 'd been holding for him . |
| 3 | Look , ’ and she opened her handbag and reached inside , ‘ this was one I 'd been saving for him — ’ Her voice cracked and she began to cry . |
| 4 | Actually , I 'd been waiting for somebody else but I just happened to be on hand and I could n't just stand there and watch her struggle with all those boxes , suitcases , typewriters , bicycles , stereo systems and so on . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I 'd been waiting for her , too ! |
| 6 | I got this job in the machine sh in one of the lock shops and er for a fellow , I worked for him and er after I 'd been working for him they wanted me to work for somebody else but this fellow would n't let me go . |
| 7 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 8 | I went reinforced too by all I had been doing for myself and with the knowledge that I felt better than I had felt for some time and that that growth towards well being appeared to be increasing with each day . |
| 9 | Karen had dipped badly in her A-levels and had done two years in a commerce school before she 'd been accepted for her degree course . |
| 10 | This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him . |
| 11 | Frau Geller murmured something to her companion about it never happening to a woman unless she 'd been asking for it . |
| 12 | She 'd been waiting for you . ’ |
| 13 | Rain said : ‘ If Sabine Jourdain planned to reveal how much of Durance 's work she 'd been doing for him , a lot of people would have preferred she did n't . ’ |
| 14 | But she 'd taken an instant liking to you and for years she 'd been agitating for me to settle down . ’ |
| 15 | Then Luke materialised beside her , and with a shock of despair Merrill realised that , unconsciously , she had been watching for him . |
| 16 | Lily looked as though she had been thinking for her whole family all her life ; she was younger , by far , than she appeared . |
| 17 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |
| 18 | She had been aching for him since she had first seen him straddling that bike with such lazy arrogance . |
| 19 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 20 | She had been waiting for him to bring up the subject and was not surprised when he did so that very evening , although not , as she had anticipated , because of the eminently satisfactory report from her gynaecologist but for another reason altogether . |
| 21 | All the time she had been waiting for him to call , it had been there … |
| 22 | She guessed it would be Nicky Kai , eager to hear her singing the praises of her beloved island once more , and she might be willing to stay and share the light supper she had been planning for herself as it was Sunday , the one evening of the week on which Florian might occasionally make a concession to the fact of his breakfast show slot and retire soon after dark . |
| 23 | She had been studying for her A levels however when , after discovering that she had smuggled a pining and off-his-food spaniel up to her bedroom to sleep one night , her father had put some of her own recent doubts into words . |
| 24 | " We had been hoping for something more dramatic " , one said . |
| 25 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 26 | They 'd been waiting for me , it seemed , in a mutual absence of civility . |
| 27 | The third she found broken , knocked over on to its side , the water dripping from a puddle on the windowsill on to a seat below and through that on to the floor , and the flowers scattered and brown-edged , as if they 'd been picked for their beauty and freshness by a little girl and then loosed regardlessly on the path from her sticky hands as she ran off to do something else . |
| 28 | Culdub Oakapple opened his mouth to say that acclaim was all very well in its way , but they had been hoping for something a bit more financial than that , but the two Gnomes on each side of him trod on his foot to stop him , because you could not always trust the Oakapple to be tactful . |
| 29 | He presumed they had been written for him to use as references for his next employer , but he tore them up angrily . |
| 30 | His wife now feared that they had been punished for his presumption . |