Example sentences of "[adj] had been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some had been waiting for more than an hour , arriving while it was still dark and the little windows of the cells were still lit . |
| 2 | Some had been coming for a year or more and spoke quite a little English . |
| 3 | All had been festering for many years . |
| 4 | ‘ 63 teams from all over the UK took part , and it was clear that many had been training for months . |
| 5 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 6 | When Luxembourg finally admitted what many had been saying for years , that it wants a federal EC , British federalists tried to pretend that the Luxembourgers do not mean federal when they say ‘ federal ’ . |
| 7 | Here was an opportunity many had been waiting for . |
| 8 | Second mission came on March 6 , 1944. it was the day all the Mighty Eighth had been waiting for . |
| 9 | The twenty eight year-old mother of two had been missing for six days when police frogmen pulled her submerged Renault car out of the river . |
| 10 | About half of the patients had been waiting for their notes for less than six weeks , but 19 had been waiting for over six months , 14 for over a year , and six for over two years . |