Example sentences of "he had been [verb] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had a very happy collaboration in Berlin over Mozart 's Die Zauberflöte , which he had been wanting to do for a number of years . |
| 2 | It was something he had been wanting to do for over ten years , but , now that he had done it , he had destroy something that had been between them — a mysterious , almost exquisite , promise of delight . |
| 3 | And now he had been made to pay for what he had done . |
| 4 | They looked at each other , Jean-Paul focusing his eyes with difficulty , and Edouard saw the coarsening in his brother which he had been trying to ignore for days . |
| 5 | Director Alvin Rakoff had problems with Crawford when it came to a crucial , very dramatic scene that he shared with Donald Pleasence , who was playing the police officer who could see a way to nailing the crook whom he had been trying to get for twenty years through his son . |
| 6 | Robert recognized faces he had been trying to avoid for weeks . |
| 7 | Influenced particularly by Ravi Shankar , whose film music he had been hired to score for Western musicians . |
| 8 | In fairness to Sarah he had wanted to devote a whole day to her , but the pressure of his work had made it impossible , and he had been forced to settle for an afternoon wedding , following a Governors ' meeting , so that he and his bride could depart for Chertsey on the last train . |