Example sentences of "that they had been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may not have found quite the soulmate in each other that they had been looking for , but their relationship has made up for it in other ways . |
| 2 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 3 | His wife now feared that they had been punished for his presumption . |
| 4 | The UAE news agency WAM reported that they had been expelled for " activities which harm relations between the two countries including the fabrication of false reports about the Sudanese community in the UAE " . |
| 5 | A judge told William Sim and David Todd that they had been playing for high stakes and had to pay the penalty . |