Example sentences of "who had been [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eve had n't known that Birdie Mac who ran the sweet shop had a man from Ballylee who had been calling for fifteen years , but she would n't leave her old mother and the man from Ballylee would n't come to Knockglen . |
| 2 | Philip Larkin had already published two novels — Jill ( 1946 ) and A Girl in Winter ( 1947 ) — before he established himself in 1955 , with The Less Deceived , as the best poet of his generation ; and John Osborne 's first play ever to reach the public theatre , Look Back in Anger ( 1956 ) , was written by an actor untouched by academia who had been writing for several years and a stranger to all of them . |
| 3 | In the Philippines last year , an investigation team found two ‘ disappeared ’ women who had been missing for several months . |
| 4 | A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital had to be rescued from a cow slurry pit . |
| 5 | A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital was up to his neck in cow slurry when found . |
| 6 | I went there and found that people who had been waiting for four hours or more had still not received satisfaction . |
| 7 | Alec d'Urberville , who had been waiting for this moment , appeared at her side . |
| 8 | Then John 's second son , Robert , married the stunningly beautiful Elizabeth Tomkins who had been dancing for seven years . |