Example sentences of "he [vb past] been [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 3 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 4 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 5 | Prince Charles said he 'd been waiting for a year for the chance to speak publiclty about the fate of the Marsh Arabs . |
| 6 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This was it , the confrontation-point which he had been dreading for the best part of a week . |
| 9 | He had been looking for a place to live . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He had been looking for the Face of Death . |
| 12 | He had been looking for the omen Heather might have nerved herself to disregard . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
| 15 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
| 16 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 17 | As the door closed , Zen let out a breath he realized he had been holding for a long time . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 23 | He had been pressing for the opportunity to abandon himself , free of dogma , and here it was . |
| 24 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |
| 25 | ‘ Nutrition , ’ John said , after he had been working for a short time . |
| 26 | The case of Kenneth Littlejohn had been prominent in the news during the year and they had the impression that he had been working for the Home Office . |
| 27 | He had been working for the Cyrenians at an annex to the Simon House Hostel for the Homeless in Rectory Road Oxford . |
| 28 | As soon as her breasts were free of their thin cotton restraint , he licked the soft , warm flesh , as if the taste of her was something he had been craving for an eternity . |
| 29 | And who was it who said that when he agreed to play the Devil in the Witches of Eastwick , it was because he had been practising for the role all his life ? |
| 30 | He had been gunning for a place in Graham Taylor 's squad for next month 's friendly in Spain but the 24-year-old now faces a month on the sidelines . |