Example sentences of "'d [been] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 They 'd been living together for many years .
2 She 'd been carrying on outside all morning and
3 What he 'd been leading up to all week ?
4 When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England .
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 And yes , he 'd been working there for several days .
7 Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day .
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