Example sentences of "he 'd been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E 'd been saying ‘ ow 's you 's coming hover . |
| 2 | One night Major , Deekie as he was known , came down to inspect and the young chappy who was on guard , he challenged him properly er before he allowed him to advance towards him but after he 'd advanced toward him and he 'd been recognized Major says is the rifle alright ? |
| 3 | Only at the last moment , when he 'd been recognized in turn , did Zen realize that it was Daniele Miletti . |
| 4 | He 'd been collecting , you know , Italian painting . |
| 5 | He revealed that he 'd been intending to do an act at the Easter Fete but had abandoned it because he 'd decided it was a load of rubbish . |
| 6 | A European commission has ruled he 'd been denied access to justice and refused freedom of speech which could open the way for the new hearing . |
| 7 | After all , he 'd been ferreting in the records for a good while . ’ |
| 8 | He 'd been screwing all day and he 'd walk into the camp fucking going |
| 9 | She had seen him like this before , the night they 'd met , when he 'd been determined to have his own way ; she 'd seen him like this again , when he 'd announced she was not going to return to Milan … |
| 10 | ‘ He 'd been slumped over the freezer for some minutes before anyone realised anything was wrong , ’ he said . |
| 11 | He 'd been buying his clothes at Acme Attractions up the road — a stall which generally did exactly the same as Malcolm only six months later , and were quite open about it . |
| 12 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 13 | Quick-thinking James , 20 , switched off the gas and collected a damp cloth , while Darren used the fire-fighting techniques he 'd been learning on his weekend course in Surrey to tackle the blaze . |
| 14 | I thought that , instead of speaking from his notes that he 'd been speaking from year after year , he was reassessing what he was doing . |
| 15 | He 'd been annoying the Dasses . |
| 16 | He spread the trousers carefully on the large deal table , put the towel with which he 'd been drying the luncheon dishes carefully on top of the faded tweed , smoothed it into place and began to poke out the creases with an old iron . |
| 17 | The AC contact was n't Shelby 's first ; he 'd been hawking his sports car plans around since the late '50s and among the people he 'd contacted with a view to building his hybrid had been his good friend Donald Healey . |
| 18 | He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh . |
| 19 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 20 | One Saturday night he 'd been drinking in front of the telly when he decided to phone Sheila 's place . |
| 21 | I saw at once he 'd been drinking . |
| 22 | In ‘ Downtown Beirut ’ , the boozery next door to the infamous ‘ Village Idiot ’ on 10th St. , ( where two Pogues ' albums continually rotate on the juke box ) , a dastardly plan was hatched to kidnap Strummer from out of the ‘ Seven B ’ bar , where he 'd been drinking all week , and substitute him onstage with Joe Hurley . |
| 23 | ‘ The last time I saw him he 'd been drinking pretty heavily and he pushed me about a bit . |
| 24 | If she had n't known better she 'd have thought he 'd been drinking . |
| 25 | He chuckled to himself , put down the cup he 'd been drinking the water from , wiped his lips . |
| 26 | That 's why your father rode home in the carriage , not because he 'd been drinking , as people thought . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ He 'd been drinking . ’ |
| 28 | It seems he 'd been drinking . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I suppose they showed he 'd been drinking ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ I could tell he 'd been drinking as soon as he joined me on the jig . |