Example sentences of "had [be] [v-ing] for the last " in BNC.
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1 | Then Andy took his wedge , which he had been swinging for the last ten minutes , and hit the perfect , or apparently perfect shot , straight at the flag . |
2 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
3 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
4 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
5 | Mike noticed a group of heavy gamblers , most of them Greek , move towards the baccarat room , where the Sultan of Rupolei had been losing for the last hour . |
6 | Now , however , she sat up in bed and wondered , as she had been wondering for the last few days , what had happened to the spider . |