Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [v-ing] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 2 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 3 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 4 | I had been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , he typed , as Harsnet had written . |
| 5 | I had been preparing myself for as long as I can remember , preparing myself ( though I did not always realize it ) from the day that I was born , preparing myself , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , but always aware of the dangers of beginning too soon . |
| 6 | I had been polishing it for what seemed hours and you could now see your face in it perfectly . |
| 7 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 8 | Claudia wanted to laugh out loud — that was what she had been telling him for days , but under the joy she was aware of fear making itself known . |
| 9 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 10 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 11 | She had been planning it for months now , and it was vitally important . |
| 12 | Additionally , there may be a number of general domestic or luxury items which you had been promising yourself for some time and the only question is one of actual timing , i.e. determining the right moment to buy . |
| 13 | ‘ I hoped that perhaps you had been doing something for the welfare of these poor peoples , ’ persisted Daisy . |
| 14 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 15 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 16 | He had been monopolising her for most of the evening , or trying to , and she was growing less and less happy about it . |
| 17 | Oh , but this is the Niersteiner , the last bottle , and it would n't go very well with beef ’ He had been saving it for Sophia 's birthday . |
| 18 | It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg . |
| 19 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 20 | Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days . |
| 21 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
| 22 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |
| 23 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
| 24 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |