Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [v-ing] for [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If a seller had been ringing for fifteen or twenty minutes before the phone was even answered , he would naturally resent this ultimate insult . |
| 2 | By then , some of the crowd had been waiting for 5 or 6 hours and many were becoming restive . |
| 3 | Some had been waiting for more than an hour , arriving while it was still dark and the little windows of the cells were still lit . |
| 4 | It was announced on April 18 that the Federal Collective Presidency had agreed to lift the " special measures " in the autonomous province of Kosovo , a part of the Serbian republic , where disturbances involving the ethnic Albanian majority had been continuing for more than a year . |
| 5 | I had been working for more than an hour and my wrists ached from the continuous chopping , but I was filled with an immense exhilaration . |
| 6 | The new aspect which foreign policy had been acquiring for two or three decades had suddenly grown to startling dimensions . |