Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] 'd be doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to expand , so he went into partnership with someone he 'd been doing business with . |
| 2 | I gave him the booklet and I told him I 'd been doing it … oh , yes , and he 'd put it in as one of his objectives for this year . |
| 3 | I 'd been dreaming , that 's what I 'd been doing . |
| 4 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 5 | But this is so different to what I 'd been doing as it is for most people . |
| 6 | What she 'd been doing was missing breakfasts and lunches and dinners in an effort to accommodate Silvia 's erratic time-keeping — and still failing to do the stipulated six hours a day , she thought to herself with a dart of misery . |
| 7 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But they loved what we 'd been doing . |
| 9 | ‘ What would she say if she knew what we 'd been doing tonight ? ’ |
| 10 | But then they 'd still presumably report back to the main group about what they 'd been doing . |
| 11 | They , they , what they 'd been doing was shooting them over and they 'd just had n't been exploded , they said dud shell or something . |
| 12 | She thought the girls would regard anyone who wanted to relive her childhood as wringingly wet , but they did n't openly sneer — just went back to whatever they 'd been doing while Constance and Camille walked away to appreciate the fine lines and charming dispositions of twenty greyhounds . |
| 13 | As to what he 'd been doing , there had been a couple of incidents down by the river , which on top of the morning 's ordeal , had about finished him . |
| 14 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |
| 15 | By comparison , what he 'd been doing in the cafeteria block was mere journeyman stuff . |
| 16 | " To destroy the evidence of what he 'd been doing , or the result of his analysis , or the time he 'd spent on it . |
| 17 | I went to have a look at what he 'd been doing . |
| 18 | But he went on refusing to say anything at all about what he 'd been doing in Paris . |
| 19 | While Zen waited for his driver to arrive , his hosts tried politely to find out who he was and what he 'd been doing , but he remained deliberately vague . |
| 20 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 21 | Did he say what he 'd been doing with himself ? |
| 22 | But he had finished whatever he 'd been doing , so Juliet just tidied the bed and put a few things away . |