Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] [pron] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 2 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 3 | Investigators belatedly found that the head of the bank , 35-year old Robert Gravier , had been bilking it for millions . |
| 4 | Then came news of more freebies , rumours of worse stories to come , and Tory ministers and MPs realised what some had been telling them for weeks . |
| 5 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 6 | Claudia wanted to laugh out loud — that was what she had been telling him for days , but under the joy she was aware of fear making itself known . |
| 7 | ROSS STRUDWICK had been telling us for weeks : the London Crusaders can become big-time . |
| 8 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 9 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 10 | Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now . |
| 11 | Worse , Riley had been chiding him for not providing a string of exclusive MacQuillan stories but the ones he had written were being held over until they were out of date or appeared elsewhere . |
| 12 | Additionally , there may be a number of general domestic or luxury items which you had been promising yourself for some time and the only question is one of actual timing , i.e. determining the right moment to buy . |
| 13 | The girls had been plotting it for a month in great excitement . |
| 14 | ‘ I found as the charred remains came to light that one of their employees , who had left the firm last year , had been embezzling them for years and had set fire to the premises so that no trace could be found of his dirty work . |
| 15 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
| 16 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 17 | Oh , but this is the Niersteiner , the last bottle , and it would n't go very well with beef ’ He had been saving it for Sophia 's birthday . |
| 18 | It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg . |
| 19 | The expression that had been haunting her for nearly two days . |
| 20 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
| 21 | I did n't have another bridesmaid , nor did I have Southall in a cart , which Clare had been training him for , as a surprise for me . |
| 22 | The Achilles ' tendon which had been bothering him for weeks finally gave out amid a sympathetic cheer and a great forward ambled to the sideline and out of the match with an hour gone . |
| 23 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 24 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 25 | Margaret had been seeing him for nearly a year and Maura had the feeling that they were going to get married . |
| 26 | Since the approach was fairly new to all interviewed ( none had been operating it for more than nine months ) the responses may have more to do with expectations than experience , but nevertheless they serve to sketch out the potential of the care programme approach to affect every aspect of mental health care , for good or ill . |
| 27 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 28 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 29 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 30 | Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days . |