Example sentences of "'d [been] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm glad you do n't try to be what you are n't , ’ he said gravely , beckoning the waiter who 'd been leaning wearily against the door-jamb . |
| 2 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 3 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 4 | I 'd been muttering unhappily to a couple of friends about how hopelessly disorganized a particular campaign I 'd got involved with seemed to be when a strange man next to us started a similar but louder tirade about how useless Switchboard was , how everyone knew they were ripping off money from their fund raising and what a lousy job they did in his ( extremely small and third-hand ) experience . |
| 5 | He 'd been pottering around in the big old half-ruined sheds on the other side of the quarry , one day back in the summer . |
| 6 | He 'd been sailing close to the wind for years and everything was just about to blow up in his face . ’ |
| 7 | He had a feeling that they 'd been waiting right from the start of the trip . |
| 8 | as if she 'd been waiting outside for a convenient pause in their conversation , the vaporeuse knocked on the door and opened it . |
| 9 | This made him aware of how much he 'd been missing before in the cold , masculine environment of the academy . |
| 10 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 11 | Course I di I did n't get to know much else but it was obvious you see , she 'd been going out with a young man , her husband was in the Forces and er she 'd tried to get rid of it . |
| 12 | Also there were the people who 'd been coming in to the shop when it was still Let It Rock . |
| 13 | And Ben like when we were sort of there Ben sort of we 'd been sitting around for a while and he said it 's very embarrassing to have to ask this but you 're staying the night and stuff erm are you two a couple or are you just friends so no , just friends but it 's alright , if you do n't have any spare rooms we 'll be perfectly happy to sleep together , do n't worry . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd say you 'd been sitting out in the sun too long . ’ |
| 15 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 16 | 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 . |