Example sentences of "he [vb past] be [verb] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 2 | He said he 'd been followed for the last week or so . |
| 3 | And he had to go and train somewhere down south , but he 's got a he , apparently he 'd been trying for a year and he 's got to Accrington . |
| 4 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 5 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 6 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 7 | Prince Charles said he 'd been waiting for a year for the chance to speak publiclty about the fate of the Marsh Arabs . |
| 8 | And he 'd been braced for the knife lunging out of the darkness . |
| 9 | In 1969 Josef Frolik of the Czechoslovakian intelligence service defected to the CIA with his wife and proceeded to give some startling information about numerous British Labour Party politicians and trade union officials who he claimed were working for the KGB . |
| 10 | He enjoyed being taken for a walk by Angela . |
| 11 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 12 | ‘ He was not in the premier division of drugs dealers in Belfast and police have no reason to contradict his assertion that he had been involved for a short time , ’ the Crown lawyer added . |
| 13 | Howard had , after a quick tour of the TARDIS , retired to his office with a brandy bottle he had been saving for a special occasion . |
| 14 | Demirel had previously pledged to remove President Özal from power , but on Oct. 24 , possibly influenced by the narrowness of his party 's victory over the ANAP , he declared that Özal might continue as President — an office to which he had been elected for a seven-year term in October 1989 . |
| 15 | This was it , the confrontation-point which he had been dreading for the best part of a week . |
| 16 | He had been looking for a place to live . |
| 17 | He was inclined to believe he had been looking for an excuse to ring her , which was foolish because he did not need an excuse . |
| 18 | He had been looking for the Face of Death . |
| 19 | He had been looking for the omen Heather might have nerved herself to disregard . |
| 20 | He had been gone for a long time . |
| 21 | Wordsworth 's poetic fluency had never been greater , and the landscape near Tintern Abbey , revisited after an absence of five years , released from him a stream of meditative blank verse quite different in style from the humble poems of rural life he had been writing for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 22 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
| 23 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
| 24 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 25 | As the door closed , Zen let out a breath he realized he had been holding for a long time . |
| 26 | Then Andy took his wedge , which he had been swinging for the last ten minutes , and hit the perfect , or apparently perfect shot , straight at the flag . |
| 27 | One particularly nasty German television journalist informed me that he had been waiting for a month and if anyone was getting near Ortega , it was him . |
| 28 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
| 29 | He had been stationed for a time in a war hospital , once a lunatic asylum . |
| 30 | Because he thought that he was dealing with the National Press rather than simply a few local people whom he had been ignoring for a considerable time , the Mayor responded to direct questioning , even if he did not change his colours . |