Example sentences of "he 'd [been] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been sailing close to the wind for years and everything was just about to blow up in his face . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 3 | He 'd been pottering around in the big old half-ruined sheds on the other side of the quarry , one day back in the summer . |
| 4 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 5 | Was it still remotely possible that , in spite of everything , he 'd been looking forward to having her here with him as his wife ? |
| 6 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
| 7 | He looked as if he 'd been Lying there on his stomach for quite a while . |
| 8 | What he 'd been leading up to all week ? |
| 9 | Just imagine if he 'd been sitting there with his legs dangling outside . |
| 10 | Here she was , imagining that the last half-hour had been a sort of truce — telling Marc all those things about her life on the stage , all those silly , funny , self-mocking stories of disaster and mayhem that were part of the business , and he 'd been sitting there in judgement all that time , working out how much Peter might or might not have paid her for playing the part of his fiancée … |
| 11 | This made him aware of how much he 'd been missing before in the cold , masculine environment of the academy . |
| 12 | But he did n't tell me he 'd been going out with her for three weeks and he 's never . |
| 13 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 14 | He 'd been waiting there for me , I concluded . |
| 15 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |
| 16 | And yes , he 'd been working there for several days . |
| 17 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 18 | He 'd been walking home after celebrating starting a new job after nine months on the dole when he was set upon . |