Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [verb] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ’ |
| 2 | Then Luke materialised beside her , and with a shock of despair Merrill realised that , unconsciously , she had been watching for him . |
| 3 | She had been aching for him since she had first seen him straddling that bike with such lazy arrogance . |
| 4 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | All the time she had been waiting for him to call , it had been there … |
| 7 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 8 | He presumed they had been written for him to use as references for his next employer , but he tore them up angrily . |
| 9 | They had been waiting for them , forewarned , rifles at the ready . |
| 10 | They had been notified for it anyway , you know . |
| 11 | Though the stone was large , the ornate gold band was small , and it fitted as if it had been made for her . |
| 12 | Ken told the story as though it had been scripted for him for Hancock 's Half Hour . |
| 13 | He took to the Cobra position as if it had been designed for him . |
| 14 | Theodora replaced the mouthpiece and the telephone shrilled again as though it had been waiting for her to release its ring . |
| 15 | And er it had been known for them to split . |
| 16 | One or two of the boys would go in there , fellers of the village , and they would stop there all night , and the next night ; and they say it had been known for it to go the week ; have a week settin' in , staying in the pub . |
| 17 | In theory he had been prepared for it all along , but that it should happen now , right now … |
| 18 | He had been waiting for her to go to bed . |
| 19 | He had been waiting for her , it seemed . |
| 20 | He told me that he had been asking for them , to no avail . |
| 21 | Roman thanked the girl and asked her not to tell Mr Smith he had been asking for him . |