Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Walker , the England Youth international goalkeeper , who has been deputising for the injured Thorstvedt , gave away a free kick just inside his penalty area by taking too many steps with the ball . |
| 32 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 33 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 34 | Ever since I started consultancy work in politics , I 'd been pushing for the use of this simple invention — a British one — but it was n't until after President Reagan used it in his address to the Houses of Parliament that our politicians felt it was worthy of notice . |
| 35 | She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by . |
| 36 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |
| 37 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 38 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 39 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 40 | But , more than that , his predilection for Neath players deprived the club of their own best talent so that when they would otherwise have been training for the league , instead they were training for the Five Nations Championship . |
| 41 | He must have been looking for the keys . |
| 42 | Your , your arithmetic has really improved you know , you can do these things in your head now whereas not all that long ago you 'd have been reaching for the calculator thinking , oh I ca n't do that . |
| 43 | In some sense Angela may have been paying for the assets — they had assets valued at £600,000 then , most of it in the lease on the building . |
| 44 | ‘ Mait wo n't have been heading for the dock , ’ Ace reasoned . |
| 45 | She must have been going for the six o'clock train , and she was probably in a dickens of a rush when … ’ |
| 46 | Despite the widespread feeling that there had been a victory for parental rights , many of the Dewsbury parents claimed to have been acting for the sake of their children . |
| 47 | Their clothes were an abrasive barrier between them , and her hands were as urgent as his as she peeled off the same black dress she seemed to have been wearing for the past century . |
| 48 | With sufficient manipulation of the rota , it would be possible to arrange for the work-force to have been working for the same number of hours at different times of the day — condition ( 2 ) . |
| 49 | The gunman is believed to have been waiting for the women and chidren to come out of the shop . |
| 50 | Then Andy took his wedge , which he had been swinging for the last ten minutes , and hit the perfect , or apparently perfect shot , straight at the flag . |
| 51 | In the early hours of Sunday 13 February 1692 , Captain Campbell , from a clan hostile to the Macdonalds , along with 120 of his soldiers , whom the Macdonalds had been entertaining for the previous fortnight , suddenly fell upon their hosts and butchered them , shooting Macdonald himself in the back and killing nearly 70 men , women and children . |
| 52 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 53 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 54 | He had been looking for the Face of Death . |
| 55 | He had been looking for the omen Heather might have nerved herself to disregard . |
| 56 | She wondered whether Amy had been looking for the Julians or for her when she drove down the drive ? |
| 57 | Thornton had been pushing for the same sort of readership , and the two men had another thing in common — they wanted action . |
| 58 | Apart from anything else , his family came from Glasgow ( unlike twenty-five of the thirty-one Scottish lord lieutenants , Admiral Bryson had also been educated in Scotland ) , as several of the big Sussex landowners who had been hoping for the job quickly pointed out . |
| 59 | They had been drinking for the best part of an hour but none were drunk . |
| 60 | This was it , the confrontation-point which he had been dreading for the best part of a week . |