Example sentences of "had [be] [v-ing] for the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been looking for the omen Heather might have nerved herself to disregard . |
| 2 | He had been looking for the Face of Death . |
| 3 | Apart from anything else , his family came from Glasgow ( unlike twenty-five of the thirty-one Scottish lord lieutenants , Admiral Bryson had also been educated in Scotland ) , as several of the big Sussex landowners who had been hoping for the job quickly pointed out . |
| 4 | Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject . |
| 5 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
| 6 | Miss Gregg told detectives her mother had been waiting for the handyman to call at the time of her death . |
| 7 | It was as if a sick national organism had been waiting for the right , suitably appalling , symptom to erupt into general protest at its fate . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | He had been pressing for the opportunity to abandon himself , free of dogma , and here it was . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I had been working for the Countess as a personal assistant since she married the Earl in 1976 . |
| 12 | Mr Wilbraham , who is only 34 , had been working for the family shipping and engineering business until it was sold in 1987 . |
| 13 | In the launderette it was warm and cosy ; here Maggie made friends and fans and she had inconsequential conversations which mysteriously made her a member of the local community in a way she had never been when she had been fighting for the area 's well-being . |
| 14 | Sighing , Tim 's father said the family knew the country had been praying for the 12-year-old . |