Example sentences of "had [been] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 4 | 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 ! |
| 5 | He had been looking for the Face of Death . |
| 6 | He had been looking for the omen Heather might have nerved herself to disregard . |
| 7 | She wondered whether Amy had been looking for the Julians or for her when she drove down the drive ? |
| 8 | Thornton had been pushing for the same sort of readership , and the two men had another thing in common — they wanted action . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They had been drinking for the best part of an hour but none were drunk . |
| 11 | This was it , the confrontation-point which he had been dreading for the best part of a week . |
| 12 | The thieves took £80 that 73-year-old Peggy Metcalfe had been saving for the past three months . |
| 13 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 14 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
| 15 | Wordsworth 's poetic fluency had never been greater , and the landscape near Tintern Abbey , revisited after an absence of five years , released from him a stream of meditative blank verse quite different in style from the humble poems of rural life he had been writing for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 16 | Although Eliot considered this idea a good one , especially in view of the articles I had been writing for the New English Weekly ( for example , ‘ Italy must Choose ; and ‘ An Open Letter to Ansaldo ’ , which Mairet had forwarded to the spokesman in question and also to the Vatican ) , he felt that such a book issued in time of war , would need official backing . |
| 17 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 18 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 19 | And I had been loading for the Major the last time that I was out shooting , the last time for me like . |
| 20 | The large dining room which had been airing for the past week had passed its final inspection although Mrs Lundy had insisted that the maids cleaned the windows and French doors one more time . |
| 21 | Mr Waterworth worked for an agency and had been driving for the Fewston Transport Company , of Skipton , at the time of the tragedy . |
| 22 | Yet it was just here that friction and innovation entered , for since the eleventh century church theorists — theologians and particularly canon lawyers — and successive popes had been claiming for the clergy immunities and privileges quite distinct from lay expectations . |
| 23 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 24 | The reason for his pleasure , as well as for the handkerchief 's greyness , was that he had washed it himself … and really he had done just as good a job as the dhobi had been doing for the most extravagant prices . |
| 25 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 26 | Or so he seemed to Sairellen Thackray who preferred her leaders to have the mature dignity of a Richard Oastler , whom she had followed on foot those ninety miles to York and back when they had been campaigning for the ten hour working day . |
| 27 | The banks have been hostile to the plans from the beginning but had been waiting for the right moment to withdraw on commercial rather than political grounds . |
| 28 | Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject . |
| 29 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
| 30 | Miss Gregg told detectives her mother had been waiting for the handyman to call at the time of her death . |