Example sentences of "had [been] [v-ing] for he " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Then Luke materialised beside her , and with a shock of despair Merrill realised that , unconsciously , she had been watching for him . |
| 3 | She had been aching for him since she had first seen him straddling that bike with such lazy arrogance . |
| 4 | Marie had been waiting for him out in the car-park . |
| 5 | Rab had been waiting for him . |
| 6 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The car had been waiting for him . |
| 9 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | All the time she had been waiting for him to call , it had been there … |
| 12 | Roman thanked the girl and asked her not to tell Mr Smith he had been asking for him . |
| 13 | Roy had been working for him since three weeks after his wedding , and he hated it . |
| 14 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 15 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |