Example sentences of "who had been [v-ing] for [num] " in BNC.
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1 | Eve had n't known that Birdie Mac who ran the sweet shop had a man from Ballylee who had been calling for fifteen years , but she would n't leave her old mother and the man from Ballylee would n't come to Knockglen . |
2 | A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital had to be rescued from a cow slurry pit . |
3 | A MENTAL patient who had been missing for 24 hours from a hospital was up to his neck in cow slurry when found . |
4 | I went there and found that people who had been waiting for four hours or more had still not received satisfaction . |
5 | Then John 's second son , Robert , married the stunningly beautiful Elizabeth Tomkins who had been dancing for seven years . |