Example sentences of "[subord] he had been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 2 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 5 | 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 ? |
| 6 | ‘ Nutrition , ’ John said , after he had been working for a short time . |
| 7 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |