Example sentences of "and [noun] had been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
| 2 | Dr Gilbert has pointed out that when the evangelist Hannah More remarked in 1789 on the existence of whole village populations no less estranged from the services of the Church than were heathens , she was belatedly recognising something which Wesley and Whitefield had been proclaiming for decades . |
| 3 | Donald and Elinor had been talking for thirty minutes . |
| 4 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 5 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 6 | Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now . |
| 7 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |