Example sentences of "he [verb] be [verb] [pron] for " in BNC.
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1 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
2 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
3 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
4 | He had been monopolising her for most of the evening , or trying to , and she was growing less and less happy about it . |
5 | Oh , but this is the Niersteiner , the last bottle , and it would n't go very well with beef ’ He had been saving it for Sophia 's birthday . |
6 | It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg . |
7 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
8 | Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days . |
9 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
10 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |
11 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
12 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
13 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
14 | He 's been doing it for centuries and now he thinks he 's king |
15 | He 's been doing it for years . |
16 | ‘ Probably , but he 's been doing it for years . ’ |
17 | He 's been doing it for years . |
18 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
19 | He 's been doing it for quite a while now has n't he ? |
20 | He 's been doing it for twenty years |
21 | He 's been doin' it for forty years . |