Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been playing safe for our own survival , and scores of heterosexuals went unchallenged in their continued acts of heterosexism . |
| 2 | I was in Italy , it was early morning , and I 'd been lying awake for about three hours . |
| 3 | They 'd been sitting still for too long . |
| 4 | She 'd been sitting motionless for over an hour , conducting an inner battle over the need to alert the board of Chester 's about Guy 's perfidy , with the stubborn hope that somehow she might be wrong keeping her glued to the spot , torn with indecision … |
| 5 | I heard myself saying the line that had been waiting ready for months : ‘ I think the time has come when you must go in . ’ |
| 6 | It had been lying empty for months , he said . |
| 7 | Re-rigging the ship for an Antarctic voyage inside of a week , after she had been lying idle for over a year , was quite impossible . |
| 8 | The shop had been standing empty for some time , and needed a great deal of work . |
| 9 | One family tea-time , when Auntie had been sitting silent for some time , she said : " It 's lucky there 's never anyone left in those offices at night . " |
| 10 | A minute earlier he had been feeling sorry for the men who were still out on house-to-house questioning . |
| 11 | He had been feeling cold for some time . |
| 12 | It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away . |