Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [adv] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 2 | Yes , we had both been searching for years for a place like this , well away from urban life with some land and outbuildings . |
| 3 | But after a week or two it became evident that the various bridgeheads were being held and advances being made ( at what cost we did not then know , but could only guess at ) , and that this was in fact the big event we had all been waiting for . |
| 4 | To some degree they had already been catering for children with special needs . |
| 5 | The implication of moral blackmail in robbing patient services to pay nurses remained a ghost at the banquet for the media , and for many nurses , who had still to reconcile the jobs they had perhaps been doing for years with the management 's idea of their responsibilities , and the clinical grade to which they aspired . |
| 6 | They had undoubtedly been asking for trouble . |
| 7 | Jake fingered the paperweight idly as he continued , ‘ It had probably been developing for a few days . |
| 8 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 9 | He had also been talking for ages to Broadman , and Ymor had seen a piece of paper change hands . |
| 10 | He brought with him his own group of masons , and a letter of introduction from Humphrey Lovell , the queen 's master mason , according to which he had previously been working for Sir Francis Knollys [ q.v. ] , probably at Caversham House , near Reading . |
| 11 | Perhaps , thought Robert , he had simply been playing for time and had now come up with a credible answer . |
| 12 | He had reportedly been pressing for the USA to distance itself from the peace negotiations and he was therefore opposed to a Washington venue ; he was also known to support a Middle Eastern venue to emphasize the regional , as opposed to the international , nature of the conflict . |
| 13 | He had obviously been searching for appropriate words of censure during the silence . |