Example sentences of "[pron] 'd [been] going " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been going round all morning and never seen him . |
| 2 | I 'd been going out burgling , like . |
| 3 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
| 4 | I 'd been going out with Heather on and off , with one or two other girls in between . |
| 5 | So , you did so many miles per hour , we calculated , you would have done so many miles if you 'd been going for a full hour at that speed , so your dis your , your speed , velocity really but we 'll call it speed , right ? |
| 6 | When she said she 'd been going to visit her friend , there 'd been no friend . |
| 7 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She could n't remember where she 'd been going at the time . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He 'd told her what to get ; she 'd been going to get him flared jeans ! ) , and he thought he looked pretty good in his snow-white shirt , black jacket , white trainers and lightly blonded dark hair . |
| 12 | I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on . |
| 13 | ‘ We 'd been going out together on dates for a month or so , ’ she began haltingly , too emotionally drained to refuse him the information he wanted . |
| 14 | The ship was n't even properly victualled for the crew : they 'd been going to take food on at Crete . |
| 15 | It was nearly a year since Dunkirk , and if they 'd been going to come , surely they 'd not have waited this long . |
| 16 | Well me Auntie Jean and me Mum got passed once , like they 'd been going down and scrubbing it from side at bath and everything . |
| 17 | He 'd been going round the beat supping this over-proofed rum from the Customs . |
| 18 | Also , the mic was n't giving off the warm , mucky sound he 'd been going for . |
| 19 | If he 'd been going to hang up on me , something made him change his mind and could be it was something I said . |
| 20 | He put aside a newspaper he 'd been going to read and jumped out of his cab . |
| 21 | ‘ He did n't like to admit he 'd got hooked — not after the way he 'd been going on . |
| 22 | He 'd been going to say important or fashionable . |
| 23 | But he did n't tell me he 'd been going out with her for three weeks and he 's never . |