Example sentences of "they 'd [been] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | They 'd been living together for many years . |
2 | They might just possibly have been able to find the morning 's path if they 'd been starting again from the road , but tracking backwards was incredibly difficult . |
3 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
4 | Yes that , I think that 's possibly true , er , I was talking to Cambridge there about oh fifteen , twenty minutes ago and they said it was raining with them , and then they 'd been talking over to somebody over in Coventry and it 's , it 's snowing there |
5 | Yeah well at the end of the day I mean I I was n't there but a the facts at the end of the day were that they 'd been buggering about with that radio system which they should n't do . |
6 | He had a feeling that they 'd been waiting right from the start of the trip . |