Example sentences of "he 'd [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he had to go and train somewhere down south , but he 's got a he , apparently he 'd been trying for a year and he 's got to Accrington . |
| 2 | It was in the second of the rooms behind a damp stack of spare mattresses that he found what he 'd been hoping for . |
| 3 | He 'd been hoping for windows , and a view over the bay or the town . |
| 4 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 5 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 6 | The Raubvogel had just entered the short tunnel that led out of the cavern , when Katze finally found what he 'd been looking for . |
| 7 | So he 'd been looking for her . |
| 8 | He 'd been driving for days , he 'd forgotten how many , and he was tired of the white lines painted down the middle of the highway , he was tired to the centre of his bones . |
| 9 | Well driving and for erm you know he had plant hire , he 'd been driving for him and that . |
| 10 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
| 11 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 12 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 13 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 14 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 15 | Also , the mic was n't giving off the warm , mucky sound he 'd been going for . |
| 16 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 17 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 18 | All that bottled-up vitriol for the man he 'd been waiting for had actually been for her . |
| 19 | Prince Charles said he 'd been waiting for a year for the chance to speak publiclty about the fate of the Marsh Arabs . |
| 20 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |