Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [be] [v-ing] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
| 2 | During the final rehearsals for the 1962 Berlin recording of the Ninth , Karajan discovered that for years in the Finale 's ‘ adagio ma non troppo , ma divoto ’ the Berlin violas had been annexing for themselves the top line in a passage that is richly divided . |
| 3 | The last years had been alarming for his chauffeur . |
| 4 | The last years had been alarming for his chauffeur . |
| 5 | About half of the patients had been waiting for their notes for less than six weeks , but 19 had been waiting for over six months , 14 for over a year , and six for over two years . |
| 6 | Certainly Terry , Brian and I knew that close friends had been campaigning for us and that that experience could have changed them , just as we 'd been changed by what we had gone through . |
| 7 | The horses had been waiting for it . |