Example sentences of "he 'd been [v-ing] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I thought that , instead of speaking from his notes that he 'd been speaking from year after year , he was reassessing what he was doing . |
| 2 | One Saturday night he 'd been drinking in front of the telly when he decided to phone Sheila 's place . |
| 3 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 4 | Now he was on his third circuit of the Bay : he 'd been ducking under bulldozers for almost an hour . |
| 5 | He 'd been sparing with words : it hurt to talk . |
| 6 | After missing him during his stay in Geneva ( he 'd been presiding over Berlioz 's Benvenuto Cellini at the Grand Théâtre there ) , I finally succeeded in making contact with him in Rome , where he was conducting the orchestra of the Academia di Santa Cecilia in music by Schubert , Nino Rota and , not unexpectedly , Berlioz — the Symphonie fantastique . |
| 7 | And he 'd known it , all the time he 'd been trying to bed her . |
| 8 | He 'd been hoping for windows , and a view over the bay or the town . |
| 9 | And if you read the scriptures , you 'll discover those where er he , you know er he was with Paul on one occasion , and er he 'd been eating with Gentiles and er then some Jews came up who believed that eating with er non-Jews even though they were followers of Jesus was wrong . |
| 10 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |
| 11 | The trousers he was holding were the ones he 'd been wearing at Streatley the previous weekend . |
| 12 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence , and he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenging him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 13 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence . |
| 14 | He said he 'd been driving along Akers Way in Swindon at between 40 and 60 miles per hour , when he became aware of Shaun Gooch behind him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He wore an open-neck shirt and trousers that needed pressing , but he 'd apologized for his ‘ unkempt ’ condition when he 'd first greeted them , explaining that he 'd been decorating at home and had pulled on the first things to hand in his haste to get to the waxworks . |
| 17 | Of course , he 'd been talking to Maria Luisa ; he had nothing to say to Steve . |
| 18 | The rational part of his mind knew this could not be the case , and that it was most likely he 'd been travelling in circles . |
| 19 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |
| 20 | But he went on refusing to say anything at all about what he 'd been doing in Paris . |