Example sentences of "had [be] [v-ing] for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been looking for the omen Heather might have nerved herself to disregard . |
| 2 | She wondered whether Amy had been looking for the Julians or for her when she drove down the drive ? |
| 3 | He had been looking for the Face of Death . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And I had been loading for the Major the last time that I was out shooting , the last time for me like . |
| 6 | Mr Waterworth worked for an agency and had been driving for the Fewston Transport Company , of Skipton , at the time of the tragedy . |
| 7 | Yet it was just here that friction and innovation entered , for since the eleventh century church theorists — theologians and particularly canon lawyers — and successive popes had been claiming for the clergy immunities and privileges quite distinct from lay expectations . |
| 8 | Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject . |
| 9 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
| 10 | Miss Gregg told detectives her mother had been waiting for the handyman to call at the time of her death . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | During the trial at the Old Bailey in London 15 witnesses testified that Mr Thorburn , a general manager of an electronics company , had been practising for the Tam o' Shanter golf tournament near his mother 's home in Ayr at the time he was alleged to have raped her . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | He had been pressing for the opportunity to abandon himself , free of dogma , and here it was . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I had been working for the Countess as a personal assistant since she married the Earl in 1976 . |
| 17 | He had been working for the Cyrenians at an annex to the Simon House Hostel for the Homeless in Rectory Road Oxford . |
| 18 | Mr Wilbraham , who is only 34 , had been working for the family shipping and engineering business until it was sold in 1987 . |
| 19 | But the Cossacks had been fighting for the Germans and the British Army 's main concern in Austria in May 1945 was to comply with the Yalta agreement ordering repatriation so that the Russians would honour a promise to return British prisoners of war . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Due to the fact that his marriage had been heading for the rocks ? |
| 22 | As an amateur jockey Pip has had eight National hunt wins this season and had been challenging for the Ladies Championship . |
| 23 | Sighing , Tim 's father said the family knew the country had been praying for the 12-year-old . |