Example sentences of "he [vb past] [been] [v-ing] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been waiting there for me , I concluded . |
| 2 | And yes , he 'd been working there for several days . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had been trembling violently for several hours but now no sound came from the place where he lay . |
| 5 | It was as if he had been waiting there for me all my life . |
| 6 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was a warm night , and he had been studying hard for some hours . |
| 9 | He had been coming regularly for almost sixty years , and was only fourteen when he bought his first pony there for £4.10s . |