Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The English had been fishing there for over a century , and had been settled for over fifty years , so they had a strong position for making the French give up any claims to settle there . |
| 2 | It was as if he had been waiting there for me all my life . |
| 3 | And er he said it had been standing there for quite a while . |
| 4 | Not until she had been sitting there for several minutes did Isabel realise that no sound at all had come from her torn and bleeding lips . |
| 5 | Since the embers were cool , Tallis imagined that she had been sitting there for hours . |
| 6 | She went humming upstairs to clean the bathroom , while Winnie turned over in her mind a plan which had been lurking there for some time . |