Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [v-ing] for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 2 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 3 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 4 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 5 | Subconsciously , she realised , she 'd been hoping for a ready answer , an explanation which would clear her niggling doubts … |
| 6 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 7 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |
| 8 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 9 | No , not just one day , as I said , I 'd been trying for a few |
| 10 | The fog lifted and the house became filled with a babble of excitable people , few of whom spoke English and who all arrived at once because they 'd been waiting for a clear passage . |
| 11 | So , you did so many miles per hour , we calculated , you would have done so many miles if you 'd been going for a full hour at that speed , so your dis your , your speed , velocity really but we 'll call it speed , right ? |
| 12 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 13 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 14 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 15 | Then Andy took his wedge , which he had been swinging for the last ten minutes , and hit the perfect , or apparently perfect shot , straight at the flag . |
| 16 | In the early hours of Sunday 13 February 1692 , Captain Campbell , from a clan hostile to the Macdonalds , along with 120 of his soldiers , whom the Macdonalds had been entertaining for the previous fortnight , suddenly fell upon their hosts and butchered them , shooting Macdonald himself in the back and killing nearly 70 men , women and children . |
| 17 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 18 | Obviously a tall , long-legged person will need a big horse ; I recently sold a 17.3hh gelding to a man of six foot eight who had been looking for a long time ! |
| 19 | I had been looking for a full-length piece to do anyway and I was also attracted to the idea of working with a ballet company . ’ |
| 20 | If Philip had been looking for a pale , sickly , ragged and possibly fettered prisoner , Harry would be a considerable shock to him . |
| 21 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 22 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
| 23 | The sightseers on the banks of the river , who , sensing something afoot , had been gathering for a few hours , dodged about , seeking a view between bushes . |
| 24 | Thornton had been pushing for the same sort of readership , and the two men had another thing in common — they wanted action . |
| 25 | Sophie 's voice dipped in disappointment , as if she had been hoping for a graphic account of overturned furniture and blood on the walls . |
| 26 | I know Martinho had been hoping for a religious programme . |
| 27 | Fifty miles south-west of the railway line bomb , 13 Platoon of 6 UDR reported in for duty at 0600 ; they had been hoping for a quiet day , in order to catch up on some training . |
| 28 | The embattled Chancellor had been hoping for a public show of loyalty from the Prime Minister . |
| 29 | The alliance is a blow to the ruling Parti Socialiste of President François Mitterrand , which had been hoping for an electoral alliance with the Green parties . |
| 30 | They had been drinking for the best part of an hour but none were drunk . |