Example sentences of "she had been [v-ing] for [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Luke materialised beside her , and with a shock of despair Merrill realised that , unconsciously , she had been watching for him . |
| 2 | She had been aching for him since she had first seen him straddling that bike with such lazy arrogance . |
| 3 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 4 | She had been waiting for him to bring up the subject and was not surprised when he did so that very evening , although not , as she had anticipated , because of the eminently satisfactory report from her gynaecologist but for another reason altogether . |
| 5 | All the time she had been waiting for him to call , it had been there … |