Example sentences of "the [noun pl] had been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , virtually all the demands which the Anglicans had been pressing for in their attempts to come to terms with James , such as those made by the bishops in their meeting with the King on 3 October , did . |
| 2 | But the Cossacks had been fighting for the Germans and the British Army 's main concern in Austria in May 1945 was to comply with the Yalta agreement ordering repatriation so that the Russians would honour a promise to return British prisoners of war . |
| 3 | About half of the patients had been waiting for their notes for less than six weeks , but 19 had been waiting for over six months , 14 for over a year , and six for over two years . |
| 4 | Virgin 's application was just the bargaining chip the Americans had been looking for . |
| 5 | The reason for his pleasure , as well as for the handkerchief 's greyness , was that he had washed it himself … and really he had done just as good a job as the dhobi had been doing for the most extravagant prices . |
| 6 | The travellers had been driving for six hours , and as the meter in the cab had been showing a steady sixty miles an hour , they must have covered over three hundred and fifty miles . |
| 7 | The horses had been waiting for it . |
| 8 | Carey continued : ‘ I doubt if He would have been impressed by the argument that the goats had been waiting for these things to trickle down as a by-product of economic growth . ’ |