Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [verb] [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 32 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 33 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 34 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |
| 35 | If he 's been travelling for for zero hours , how far has he gone ? |
| 36 | Erm if he 's another easy one is if he 's been travelling for one hour how far has he gone ? |
| 37 | And if he 's been travelling for ten hours , how far 's he gone ? |
| 38 | And now you can ask I can sort of ask you questions on it like if he 's been travelling for let's say If he 's if he 's covered sixty miles how long has he been riding for ? |
| 39 | Frau Geller murmured something to her companion about it never happening to a woman unless she 'd been asking for it . |
| 40 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
| 41 | You learn by doing , because you have been talking for a long time . |
| 42 | She was sore and uncomfortable , perhaps because she had been standing for so long and walking so much . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | Because we 've been talking for a while so had time for it to evaporate . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | 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 ? |
| 47 | Everyone thought Pratesi was the buyer because he 's been talking for years about building a bigger place , rearing his own pigs and growing his own feed . |
| 48 | The clients expect and understand that quite well now , because it 's been happening for about two or three years . |
| 49 | you know , he 's that sort of bloke , he 's a very nice bloke and he 's got a heart of gold and he 's saved us no end of the money ai n't he , since I 've been working for him ? |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | ‘ But I am a bit disappointed that while we 've been appealing for new directors nobody from the town has come forward . ’ |
| 52 | Now , after I had been walking for only seventeen days , I had almost forgotten those words . |
| 53 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 54 | I got this job in the machine sh in one of the lock shops and er for a fellow , I worked for him and er after I 'd been working for him they wanted me to work for somebody else but this fellow would n't let me go . |
| 55 | After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | 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 . |
| 58 | Selfing populations of plants could be valuable material , although the retention of unused yet presumably expensive floral features in some populations raised doubts as to whether they have been selfing for long enough to reach evolutionary equilibrium . |
| 59 | ‘ 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 . |
| 60 | ‘ Nutrition , ’ John said , after he had been working for a short time . |