Example sentences of "we had been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 2 | The biggest problem and disappointment was that the international rig count continued downwards and that was where we had been hoping for increased sales and increased market share looking into this year and into the last part of last year . |
| 3 | " We had been hoping for something more dramatic " , one said . |
| 4 | We had been looking for tasks that were : |
| 5 | The man gave a grunt , which was the permission we had been waiting for , and I ran all the way back to my flat to change and conduct the concert . |
| 6 | We had been waiting for three days behind Serbian lines . |
| 7 | So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal . |
| 8 | Looking back , I find it interesting that our exchanges were consistently humorous , as if we had been rehearsing for a Wit and Wisdom contest . |
| 9 | The young man admitted in due course , when we had been driving for an hour , that he did not know the way and was totally lost . |
| 10 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 11 | A small hole was dug , the cigarette buried , songs sung over the grave and then the whole procession wended its w ? y round the field four times singing the funeral march from Aida , which we had been practising for a week . |