Example sentences of "[vb past] be [v-ing] for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | My head was n't really in the right state for assimilating all this stuff , but as far as I could gather , Uncle Rory had been trying for years to come up with something Creative ( his capital , his italics ) . |
| 32 | MIT members were shown , in detail , the market which they had been trying for years to service . |
| 33 | Mr Wolski knew already that the old eagle had been ailing for months now and that three weeks ago they had finally taken her out of her cage and into the veterinary block to see if there was anything they could do for her . |
| 34 | Others have progressed rapidly in the beginning , only to experience considerable difficulty in overcoming the final hurdle — almost as though the mind was loath to give up a fear to which it had been clinging for years . |
| 35 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
| 36 | By the time Iran had attacked a Kuwaiti , a Saudi and then a Liberian tanker ( the last of these caught near the principal Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura ) , the GCC states had begun to recognize this sequence — as it was doubtless intended — as a signal to distance themselves from Iraq in the light of the support they had been providing for Baghdad . |
| 37 | ‘ 63 teams from all over the UK took part , and it was clear that many had been training for months . |
| 38 | In October , following a long silence , he finished two more of the autobiographical letters he had been writing for Tom Poole , providing in one of them , the most deeply-felt of all , his loving recollections of his father , and an account of the stormy night by the River Otter when he had almost died . |
| 39 | And just in case any men out there still need to be convinced that cleanliness is next to Robert Redfordness , how about the tale of a friend of mine who was desperate to impress a woman he had been pursuing for weeks . |
| 40 | Don had been experimenting for years before he took out the patent in 1970 and significantly stated that ‘ The difference in camber and relative incidence on the central fore and aft sections serves to stabilise the kite in pitch ’ . |
| 41 | Below them , a large group of human subjects had been circling for hours around a roller rink set among the trees . |
| 42 | Sulphur candles had been burning for days , leaving the house free of vermin , then the whole place had been painted from top to bottom . |
| 43 | In Australia , he had rejuvenated a sport that had been declining for years ; in England , he did exactly the same , leaving people exhilarated by his team 's play wherever they went and creating a great new surge of interest in the game . |
| 44 | She did n't know if they had been driving for minutes or days . |
| 45 | For a start there were the Trumper 's advertisements on TV — a whole series of them , which had been running for years . |
| 46 | Lukic looked a lot better by the end of the night , plucking out a few high balls as happily as Seaman had been doing for Arse all night . |
| 47 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 48 | I had been campaigning for Dewey night and day for six months . |
| 49 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 50 | Phoebe woke up quickly , as though she had been waiting for Maggie 's summons , but not quickly enough . |
| 51 | The government had already agreed to meeting Unita this week and the UN had been waiting for Unita to set the date , UN officials said . |
| 52 | Jessamy had been thinking about it while she had been waiting for Julius to return with the blankets , and she thought she knew the answer . |
| 53 | People had been waiting for years for freedom ‘ and they 've now had enough ’ . |
| 54 | It had been waiting for weeks . |
| 55 | She had been waiting for Silas to assert himself and knew that sooner or later an outburst of authority must come from him . |
| 56 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 57 | If Ebert had been paying for Axel 's debauchery , the chances were that he was behind the death of the girl . |
| 58 | It never occurred to me that anyone who had been starving for years would feel an incredible , overwhelming urge to eat that was both physical and emotional . |
| 59 | It had been unnerving for Martin and we had wasted a lot of time , but we pushed on to the final ridge . |
| 60 | The canyon ran parallel to the continuation of the wadi which I had been following for days . |