Example sentences of "he [vb past] been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he had to go and train somewhere down south , but he 's got a he , apparently he 'd been trying for a year and he 's got to Accrington . |
| 2 | It was in the second of the rooms behind a damp stack of spare mattresses that he found what he 'd been hoping for . |
| 3 | He 'd been hoping for windows , and a view over the bay or the town . |
| 4 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 5 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 6 | The Raubvogel had just entered the short tunnel that led out of the cavern , when Katze finally found what he 'd been looking for . |
| 7 | So he 'd been looking for her . |
| 8 | He 'd been driving for days , he 'd forgotten how many , and he was tired of the white lines painted down the middle of the highway , he was tired to the centre of his bones . |
| 9 | Well driving and for erm you know he had plant hire , he 'd been driving for him and that . |
| 10 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
| 11 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 12 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 13 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 14 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 15 | Also , the mic was n't giving off the warm , mucky sound he 'd been going for . |
| 16 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 17 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 18 | All that bottled-up vitriol for the man he 'd been waiting for had actually been for her . |
| 19 | Prince Charles said he 'd been waiting for a year for the chance to speak publiclty about the fate of the Marsh Arabs . |
| 20 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 21 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 22 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 23 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 24 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 25 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 26 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 27 | ‘ Our information is that Mr Evans left the Club in order to go and see what was delaying the arrival of his wife whom he had been expecting for some time . ’ |
| 28 | Howard had , after a quick tour of the TARDIS , retired to his office with a brandy bottle he had been saving for a special occasion . |
| 29 | Essentially the case involved a youth leader of the Red Cross , who admitted joining the Red Cross to bring him closer to young girls , whom he had been abusing for thirty years . |
| 30 | He scored another victory recently when the Labour Party abolished the unions ' block vote in the leadership elections , something he had been advocating for ages . |