Example sentences of "she had been [v-ing] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Luke materialised beside her , and with a shock of despair Merrill realised that , unconsciously , she had been watching for him . |
| 2 | Lily looked as though she had been thinking for her whole family all her life ; she was younger , by far , than she appeared . |
| 3 | Alice was supposed to help but she always woke up too late because she had been working for her exam ; Emmie had to shake her for nearly five minutes before she came up , moaning , out of a deep well of sleep . |
| 4 | She had been aching for him since she had first seen him straddling that bike with such lazy arrogance . |
| 5 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 6 | She had been waiting for him to bring up the subject and was not surprised when he did so that very evening , although not , as she had anticipated , because of the eminently satisfactory report from her gynaecologist but for another reason altogether . |
| 7 | All the time she had been waiting for him to call , it had been there … |
| 8 | She guessed it would be Nicky Kai , eager to hear her singing the praises of her beloved island once more , and she might be willing to stay and share the light supper she had been planning for herself as it was Sunday , the one evening of the week on which Florian might occasionally make a concession to the fact of his breakfast show slot and retire soon after dark . |
| 9 | She had been studying for her A levels however when , after discovering that she had smuggled a pining and off-his-food spaniel up to her bedroom to sleep one night , her father had put some of her own recent doubts into words . |