Example sentences of "had [be] [v-ing] [pers pn] for the " in BNC.

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1 In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months .
2 Short had been saving him for the Ascot race .
3 She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years .
4 That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days .
5 Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years .
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