Example sentences of "they had be [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 2 | To judge by the clutter of bottles , glasses , and over-filled ashtrays , and the brooding , weary faces , they had been debating for many hours . |
| 3 | They had been flying for 16 hours 12 minutes , had survived two bad storms and had flown over 1,800 miles of ocean . |
| 4 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 5 | A judge told William Sim and David Todd that they had been playing for high stakes and had to pay the penalty . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |
| 7 | They had been waiting for high water so that they could sail alongside in a civilised manner . |
| 8 | The young revolutionary , whom they had been trailing for sixteen hours a day , was proving less useful than Cowley had hoped , not leading them to any of his more dangerous colleagues . |
| 9 | He really did n't think the Revolution was anything more than a few peasants kicking up a fuss , like they had been doing for hundreds of years . |