Example sentences of "[vb past] be [v-ing] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 2 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 3 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 4 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |
| 5 | Well in that case and they 'd been stopping them for us you see and er excuse me stopping them for us and whoever decided to speak to them has had his few words and that 's it carry on . |
| 6 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 7 | She deserved it , she 'd been tormenting me for weeks , calling me Comic Stripper because I told better jokes than she did . |
| 8 | Eventually it was he who told her mother when she was about eight months pregnant : " We 'd been planning it for ages to tell them but we had n't had the nerve to get round to it . |
| 9 | You 'd been planning it for about |
| 10 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 11 | She 'd been avoiding it for so long , but she had no choice about facing it now . |
| 12 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 13 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 14 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 15 | Investigators belatedly found that the head of the bank , 35-year old Robert Gravier , had been bilking it for millions . |
| 16 | Then came news of more freebies , rumours of worse stories to come , and Tory ministers and MPs realised what some had been telling them for weeks . |
| 17 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 18 | Claudia wanted to laugh out loud — that was what she had been telling him for days , but under the joy she was aware of fear making itself known . |
| 19 | ROSS STRUDWICK had been telling us for weeks : the London Crusaders can become big-time . |
| 20 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 21 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 22 | Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now . |
| 23 | Worse , Riley had been chiding him for not providing a string of exclusive MacQuillan stories but the ones he had written were being held over until they were out of date or appeared elsewhere . |
| 24 | Additionally , there may be a number of general domestic or luxury items which you had been promising yourself for some time and the only question is one of actual timing , i.e. determining the right moment to buy . |
| 25 | The girls had been plotting it for a month in great excitement . |
| 26 | ‘ I found as the charred remains came to light that one of their employees , who had left the firm last year , had been embezzling them for years and had set fire to the premises so that no trace could be found of his dirty work . |
| 27 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
| 28 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 29 | Oh , but this is the Niersteiner , the last bottle , and it would n't go very well with beef ’ He had been saving it for Sophia 's birthday . |
| 30 | It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg . |