Example sentences of "had [be] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had not seen her nearest ‘ big house ’ neighbour , though she had been hearing about him for some time . |
| 2 | The prospect had been hanging over us for so many months that once Father ceased trading , it was as though the weight of worry was lifted . |
| 3 | Living Dead and Terminator slippers — people had been queuing for them for God 's sake — were being returned unused to the shops and credit notes cashed in for balls of wool and packets of scraperboard . |
| 4 | I felt this was a chance for me to put to rest one way or another this thing that had been nagging at me for such a long time . ’ |
| 5 | In October , Hopper married Michelle Phillips who had been living with him for some months . |
| 6 | Granny had been living with us for some time . |
| 7 | They had been living in it for years . |
| 8 | Once Celie finds out her sister was still alive and had been writing to her for all this time but she had not received any letters because Albert had intercepted the letters , she stopped writing to God . |
| 9 | Craig had been staying with her for some weeks now and she had grown used to seeing him there in her kitchen . |
| 10 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 11 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 12 | I ought to have guessed , she had been purring over me for days , giving me arch looks . |
| 13 | He had been working on it for more than ten years . |
| 14 | This bloke , you know , had been working on it for fifty years nonstop and |
| 15 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 16 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 17 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 18 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 19 | The rain had been beating on him for hours , on him and his comrades , not only here but wherever they had been when they met their deaths ; their clothes , their very hair , had a flattened , dead look . |
| 20 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |