Example sentences of "had been [verb] and [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | This scheme , which was the first which opened up the riverside in Leeds , an area which up to this time had been ignored and declining for 100 years , led the way for the mass of development which has since followed . |
| 2 | … once the CNAA even began to lend its support to this development , there literally was a kind of explosion , and plainly institutions had been looking and waiting for validation in this field … |
| 3 | It was what she had been hoping and longing for but there was no surge of delight , only a strong but strangely detached sense of relief that the worst of his ordeal was over . |
| 4 | She had tried to locate him for over two years , in both America and Canada , where John had been living and working for a number of years . |
| 5 | ‘ Now do stop fussing around , ’ his wife said to him after he had been tossing and turning for about an hour . |