Example sentences of "'d be [v-ing] [adv] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been living together for many years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And yes , he 'd been working there for several days . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd been working solidly for eighteen months , ’ she pointed out . |
| 5 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 6 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |