Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 33 | By the time he and Norman strode out to try to win the 1986 British Open , Bender had been caddying for eighteen years , having picked up his first serious bag when he was 18 years old . |
| 34 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 35 | James Ousley , chief executive officer of the Control Data Systems Inc spin-out , says its former parent , Control Data Corp — now divided into two separate companies ( UX No 387 ) — had been looking for additional capital for a number of years , but was not able to tempt any investors to bankroll an organisation with interests as diverse as proprietary mainframes , Unix , military and government software and services and a lottery business . |
| 36 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 37 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 38 | The group had been meeting for two years , and it was mainly a consciousness-raising group , although , with only about twenty groups in London as a whole , some of them , the ‘ housewives ’ , the women who worked part-time were also able to help run the voluntary rota in the central London office , the Women 's Liberation Workshop . |
| 39 | If a seller had been ringing for fifteen or twenty minutes before the phone was even answered , he would naturally resent this ultimate insult . |
| 40 | The phone had been ringing for some time . |
| 41 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
| 42 | The wood at the back of the painting was deeply scored with a dagger as if someone had been searching for some secret crevice or compartment . |
| 43 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 44 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 45 | If it was a turning point in terms of ‘ proving ’ the relationship , it also marked the change in image Kylie had been wanting for such a long time . |
| 46 | The biggest problem and disappointment was that the international rig count continued downwards and that was where we had been hoping for increased sales and increased market share looking into this year and into the last part of last year . |
| 47 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 48 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 49 | I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years . |
| 50 | After his exit from Monday 's semi-finals , Black revealed that he had been struggling for five years with a ‘ bio-mechanical ’ problem which affects his body balance and leads to other injuries . |
| 51 | All had been festering for many years . |
| 52 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 53 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 54 | Hart , a big man with a beard , had been teaching for nineteen years . |
| 55 | Friends say she never recovered from hearing Gilbey , who she had been dating for two years , tell Diana he loved her — 53 times in the 23 minute call . |
| 56 | Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now . |
| 57 | This was the moment Lynch had been building for all his life . |
| 58 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 59 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 60 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |