Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] had be [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 2 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 3 | No one who had ever stood on the edge of that abyss where she had been teetering for so long , that held hunger and cold , sickness that could not be treated for lack of a shilling , children one could afford neither to raise nor to bury , would have a harsh word to say . |
| 4 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 5 | Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots . |
| 6 | If I had been looking for a lover — I admit my husband 's fortunes were not at their brightest , and my friendship with the Philosopher was a little turbulent at that time — then I should not have chosen Gustave . |
| 7 | The wood at the back of the painting was deeply scored with a dagger as if someone had been searching for some secret crevice or compartment . |
| 8 | Sophie 's voice dipped in disappointment , as if she had been hoping for a graphic account of overturned furniture and blood on the walls . |
| 9 | It felt as if she had been travelling for days instead of only one , on and off , and she arrived as dusk was falling . |
| 10 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 11 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 12 | Looking back , I find it interesting that our exchanges were consistently humorous , as if we had been rehearsing for a Wit and Wisdom contest . |
| 13 | By searching for flashes repeating at exactly the same rate as the radio pulses , they were able to investigate much fainter pulsations than if they had been looking for pulses occurring at an unknown rate . |
| 14 | She did n't know if they had been driving for minutes or days . |
| 15 | He really did n't think the Revolution was anything more than a few peasants kicking up a fuss , like they had been doing for hundreds of years . |
| 16 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
| 17 | If he had been working for three days and three nights then it was in the suit he was wearing now , and his shoes had mud on them , and Erlich did n't think Ruane would be impressed . |
| 18 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 19 | She was sore and uncomfortable , perhaps because she had been standing for so long and walking so much . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | And who was it who said that when he agreed to play the Devil in the Witches of Eastwick , it was because he had been practising for the role all his life ? |
| 22 | Jessamy had been thinking about it while she had been waiting for Julius to return with the blankets , and she thought she knew the answer . |
| 23 | Now , after I had been walking for only seventeen days , I had almost forgotten those words . |
| 24 | In a taped interview with Jill Jones , Head of Science in a comprehensive , which I shall quote from several times , I asked her , after she had been talking for a while about the frustrations , what made it all worthwhile . |
| 25 | So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |
| 27 | ‘ Nutrition , ’ John said , after he had been working for a short time . |
| 28 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 29 | In the launderette it was warm and cosy ; here Maggie made friends and fans and she had inconsequential conversations which mysteriously made her a member of the local community in a way she had never been when she had been fighting for the area 's well-being . |
| 30 | Lily looked as though she had been thinking for her whole family all her life ; she was younger , by far , than she appeared . |