Example sentences of "and [pers pn] 'd been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 And I 'd been thinking of you only yesterday .
2 I left before the tour was over because it was time for Mott The Hoople to come and tour and I 'd been designated as the person to take care of them , so I went off before it was over .
3 I mean the doctor was no help and I 'd been waiting for over a coupla months to get into the Clinic for a detox .
4 Once she 'd got known for being presentable , turning up sober and on time , not leaving early with the spoons and able to tell left hand from right , word got round and she 'd been passed from college to college by grateful manciples .
5 And she 'd been talking to him for about half an hour and well er her son had come up
6 And she 'd been coming to our house , Oh about fie or six years , and she said one day to Mary , that 's my wife , says you know , Not strange name , there 's not many of them about .
7 And she 'd been charmed with Bergerac itself .
8 With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light .
9 ‘ I had jungle-boots on , and we 'd been walking through the forest all day .
10 The roadshow now belongs to the mythology of the miners , the leadership had made the effort , they 'd gone on the road , and they 'd been rewarded by a clutch of standing ovations .
11 We probably lost them on the Beltway , and they 'd been chasing round the Virginia countryside trying to pick me up … those things only have a range of about three miles . ’
12 He 'd been funny , telling stories against himself of fiascos he had survived in the theatre , and he 'd been flattering in a subtle way .
13 And he worked it out , he took about three or four weeks to work it out , and he 'd been overcharged on the interest like .
14 And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour .
15 He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter
16 The patient 's name was Wayne Benfield and he 'd been coming into the centre for daily dressings to an injured ankle .
17 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
18 And he 'd been apprenticed in Liverpool with a firm called they were ship repairers in Liverpool .
19 But it was after the war , when Magnus had driven the enemy from the land and he 'd been hailed as the new Emperor , that he performed what was to be his most significant act .
20 And he 'd been braced for the knife lunging out of the darkness .
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