Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [v-ing] for [pron] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Then Luke materialised beside her , and with a shock of despair Merrill realised that , unconsciously , she had been watching for him . |
| 4 | Lily looked as though she had been thinking for her whole family all her life ; she was younger , by far , than she appeared . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had been aching for him since she had first seen him straddling that bike with such lazy arrogance . |
| 7 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | All the time she had been waiting for him to call , it had been there … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | " We had been hoping for something more dramatic " , one said . |
| 13 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They had been waiting for them , forewarned , rifles at the ready . |
| 16 | Theodora replaced the mouthpiece and the telephone shrilled again as though it had been waiting for her to release its ring . |
| 17 | The man claimed he had been looking for his girlfriend when challenged by staff members . |
| 18 | She marched down the stairs , and saw Jasper coming out of the sitting-room where , of course , he had been searching for her money . |
| 19 | He had been waiting for her to go to bed . |
| 20 | He had been waiting for her , it seemed . |
| 21 | He had been waiting for his visa for three months . |
| 22 | Poor old Ken Brown , frustrated beyond his tolerance level , slid from the pedestal he had been erecting for himself following early and rebellious years , when , during the Murphy Cup at St. Pierre , his driver and a wooden tee box converged at not inconsiderable speed . |
| 23 | He told me that he had been asking for them , to no avail . |
| 24 | Roman thanked the girl and asked her not to tell Mr Smith he had been asking for him . |