Example sentences of "[pron] 'd be go " in BNC.

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1 ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’
2 I 'd been going round all morning and never seen him .
3 I 'd been going out burgling , like .
4 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 .
5 I 'd been going out with Heather on and off , with one or two other girls in between .
6 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 ?
7 While she 'd been gone he 'd put some music on the stereo .
8 When she said she 'd been going to visit her friend , there 'd been no friend .
9 She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ?
10 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 .
11 She could n't remember where she 'd been going at the time .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 we only went out for forty minutes , we were surprised how long we 'd been gone
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 But then , when you said they 'd been gone for a couple of years … ’
18 They 'd been gone for so long now .
19 The ship was n't even properly victualled for the crew : they 'd been going to take food on at Crete .
20 It was nearly a year since Dunkirk , and if they 'd been going to come , surely they 'd not have waited this long .
21 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 .
22 I wondered where Toby was — he 'd been gone for over thirty-six hours now .
23 He 'd been gone several days before Trueman did it .
24 He 'd been gone so long , without a word to her on his whereabouts , and now he was back and wanting to celebrate !
25 She settled down to wait with a book on caving she found in his bookcase , but after a while she had to acknowledge he 'd been gone longer than she 'd expected .
26 He 'd been going round the beat supping this over-proofed rum from the Customs .
27 Also , the mic was n't giving off the warm , mucky sound he 'd been going for .
28 If he 'd been going to hang up on me , something made him change his mind and could be it was something I said .
29 He put aside a newspaper he 'd been going to read and jumped out of his cab .
30 ‘ He did n't like to admit he 'd got hooked — not after the way he 'd been going on .
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