Example sentences of "'d [been] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 2 | I had n't had a lot of luck finding the man I wanted , but at least I 'd been getting up to date on my social exercises , like who was drinking with who , and in what bars . |
| 3 | I 'd been going out with Heather on and off , with one or two other girls in between . |
| 4 | In all the months that she 'd been going out with Adrian , he 'd never once asked to talk to her like that , in that special way , during school time . |
| 5 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |
| 6 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
| 7 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 8 | Here she was , imagining that the last half-hour had been a sort of truce — telling Marc all those things about her life on the stage , all those silly , funny , self-mocking stories of disaster and mayhem that were part of the business , and he 'd been sitting there in judgement all that time , working out how much Peter might or might not have paid her for playing the part of his fiancée … |
| 9 | All the time she 'd been wittering on about Jennifer and her illness , he had kept this to himself , suffering in silence . |