Example sentences of "he [vb past] [been] [v-ing] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 2 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
| 3 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 4 | He 'd been waiting there for me , I concluded . |
| 5 | And yes , he 'd been working there for several days . |
| 6 | Searle was not the only person at this time to conclude that since the Lefevre Gallery had told Minton ‘ Moons are out ’ , he had been searching round for new solutions which visits abroad solved only temporarily . |
| 7 | Pamela and he had been living together for a while and , until recently , Jimmy had been close to a happiness previously denied him ; both as lover and as surrogate father . |
| 8 | He had been trembling violently for several hours but now no sound came from the place where he lay . |
| 9 | It was as if he had been waiting there for me all my life . |
| 10 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 11 | This was partly because Picasso , like Braque , was at this time working largely from memory ; indeed he had been doing so for the past three years . |
| 12 | It was a warm night , and he had been studying hard for some hours . |
| 13 | Mistakenly , he had agreed to let Brompton-Smiley travel with him in the Rolls and discuss the matter of some urgency he had been whining about for the last two days . |
| 14 | He had been coming regularly for almost sixty years , and was only fourteen when he bought his first pony there for £4.10s . |
| 15 | Terry had written out a very detailed plan for a farm-school project for juvenile offenders that he had been working on for almost two years . |