Example sentences of "'d [be] [v-ing] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night , standing on the deck of Devlin 's ketch as they rapidly approached the island , she 'd been thinking the same thing . |
| 2 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 3 | I 'd been expecting a great hall with a giant round table , towering turrets , a moat and a drawbridge , but , of course , it turned out to be a ruin . |
| 4 | Back on his farm a few miles from a crash site , Mr Hayton said he 'd been expecting a longer sentence . |
| 5 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 6 | He also told police he 'd been copying a homosexual video tape . |
| 7 | Well , it had come about while he 'd been receiving the wet canvas treatment . |
| 8 | I 'd been applying a special cream to his ankles which was supposed to harden the skin , but it did n't seem to do much good . |
| 9 | Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter . |
| 10 | Then they went back to camp and the only person there was Miguel the interpreter , who 'd been having a long conversation with one of the Indians and when he turned round all the other Indians had scarpered . |
| 11 | All the better that the operation rehabilitated the credibility of the police who 'd been having a bad press in the early years of the decade . |
| 12 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
| 13 | If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road . |
| 14 | ‘ But then one night , under the covers — I was just getting older , I guess , but anyway — I was sort of reviewing the day , and I was thinking about school , and what we 'd learned , and we 'd been doing the Second World War , and I had n't liked the sound of this Hitler guy at all ; and I 'd asked dad , just to double-check , and — ’ |
| 15 | I have no compass to tell me what I am destined for ; and yet , when I look back , everything seems to fit as well together as if I 'd been following a benevolent daimon all along … |