Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] for him " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look , ’ and she opened her handbag and reached inside , ‘ this was one I 'd been saving for him — ’ Her voice cracked and she began to cry . |
| 2 | This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him . |
| 3 | Some items I 'd been holding for him . |
| 4 | I 'd been loading for him , loading the t coal into tubs and tramming them . |
| 5 | I got this job in the machine sh in one of the lock shops and er for a fellow , I worked for him and er after I 'd been working for him they wanted me to work for somebody else but this fellow would n't let me go . |
| 6 | Well driving and for erm you know he had plant hire , he 'd been driving for him and that . |
| 7 | Rain said : ‘ If Sabine Jourdain planned to reveal how much of Durance 's work she 'd been doing for him , a lot of people would have preferred she did n't . ’ |
| 8 | He has lived in this pleasant suburb 45 years , entirely unaware that Kirk , Keef , Claptout and all of Led Zeppelin had been looking for him to apologise for stealing his songs and to pay him much-needed royalties . |
| 9 | Then Luke materialised beside her , and with a shock of despair Merrill realised that , unconsciously , she had been watching for him . |
| 10 | She had been aching for him since she had first seen him straddling that bike with such lazy arrogance . |
| 11 | Marie had been waiting for him out in the car-park . |
| 12 | Rab had been waiting for him . |
| 13 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 14 | She had been waiting for him to bring up the subject and was not surprised when he did so that very evening , although not , as she had anticipated , because of the eminently satisfactory report from her gynaecologist but for another reason altogether . |
| 15 | The car had been waiting for him . |
| 16 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
| 17 | Although the citadel had been rebuilt by the Emperor Gia Long in 1802 , its palaces and temples had been designed and constructed faithfully in the style favoured by China 's Ming emperors and at the entrance to the Dai Noi , the Imperial City itself , Tran Van Hieu had been waiting for him in the shadow of the Ngo Mon , the " Bull Gate " roofed in gold tiles like the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Peking . |
| 18 | All the time she had been waiting for him to call , it had been there … |
| 19 | Roman thanked the girl and asked her not to tell Mr Smith he had been asking for him . |
| 20 | Roy had been working for him since three weeks after his wedding , and he hated it . |
| 21 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 22 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |