Example sentences of "he [vb past] [been] [verb] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been hoping for windows , and a view over the bay or the town . |
| 2 | He 'd been driving for days , he 'd forgotten how many , and he was tired of the white lines painted down the middle of the highway , he was tired to the centre of his bones . |
| 3 | He scored another victory recently when the Labour Party abolished the unions ' block vote in the leadership elections , something he had been advocating for ages . |
| 4 | He was gathering data for a book about world metro systems , a task on which he had been engaged for years . |
| 5 | In October , following a long silence , he finished two more of the autobiographical letters he had been writing for Tom Poole , providing in one of them , the most deeply-felt of all , his loving recollections of his father , and an account of the stormy night by the River Otter when he had almost died . |
| 6 | He had been searching for Morthen , to protect her from his violent half-brother , but she was nowhere to be found . |
| 7 | And just in case any men out there still need to be convinced that cleanliness is next to Robert Redfordness , how about the tale of a friend of mine who was desperate to impress a woman he had been pursuing for weeks . |
| 8 | It was true he had had no stomach for the pallid lamb chops that he had been offered for lunch . |
| 9 | But Maher could not ride Craganour in the Derby as he had been claimed for Lord Rosebery 's Prue , and the favourite was partnered by the American jockey Johnny Reiff . |
| 10 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 11 | Although he had been immersed for days in Ridley 's exotic tale , searching out the coiling roots of Coleridge 's Kubla Khan , and although he knew intellectually that so many of these stories and poems were impregnated with an unconscious symbolism which later adventures into the human psyche were to make so much more explicit , he was temperamentally incapable of seeing the hidden meaning within this laborious passing from the ‘ dungeon of lust ’ into the pellucidly clear air of the mountains of Tasgi where voices shouted in exultation . |
| 12 | He had been imprisoned for want of bail . |
| 13 | He had been bred for battle by the Witch King himself . |
| 14 | He had been marked for life . |
| 15 | Could his intended victim have somehow guessed , from an unguarded look perhaps , that he had been marked for death ? |
| 16 | He had been playing for Hendon against Centaur , from West Drayton , Middlesex , when he was injured . |
| 17 | Of course he had been working for Hut 6 from the day of his arrival at Bletchley and his duties soon became important . |
| 18 | Writing to the Countess of Rutland in 1670 from his ‘ uncouth cell ’ in the Fleet prison , where he had been committed for debt , Crowe was scathing about the quality of the tapestries produced by William , Earl of Craven [ q.v. ] , and his associates who had taken over from him at Mortlake in 1667 . |