Example sentences of "'d [been] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 2 | We 'd been bickering since New Year and she 'd flounced out of my city flat in early May , darkly muttering , Nevermore ! |
| 3 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 4 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 5 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 6 | I 'd been indulging in good heart exercise while sitting still . |
| 7 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 9 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 10 | Five minutes later he came in trying to tell tell us jokes and each time he 'd been paddling through this brake fluid and the carpet is just you know , brains |