Example sentences of "had [be] [v-ing] [noun prp] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Twenty patients who had been taking NSAIDs for more than six months underwent a screening phase and all 13 with NSAID enteropathy were recruited to the study . |
| 2 | Tommy cook had been plaguing Pinner for months . |
| 3 | Maura had been seeing Terry for nearly five months , and miraculously had managed to keep him a secret . |
| 4 | I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back . |
| 5 | He had been photographing O'Keeffe for over five years , and among the 45 prints of her he displayed were extraordinarily candid images of her body , as well as images in which she gestured provocatively , her arms and hands echoing the arrangement of forms in her abstractions , which served as backgrounds . |