Example sentences of "'d [be] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | So after they 'd been using this stuff with no windows open or anything , one of the workmen began to feel a little bit groggy so he said to his mate and open the back door Charlie , will you , I 'm feeling a bit groggy . |
| 2 | We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous . |
| 3 | Waiting for this programme and erm when the husband , her partner went home they 'd been to see this , I do n't know quite what happened |
| 4 | She 'd been dreading this . |
| 5 | But lately he 'd been concealing this whiff with his favourite aftershave , Rampage . |
| 6 | ‘ He 'd been wearing this over the shirt he wore for the sitting , ’ Edwards said , ‘ and at the end of the last sitting just as he was leaving , as an afterthought , he said , ‘ Oh you better have this ’ and took it off and gave it to me , like the end of a football match . ’ |
| 7 | Well I mean I , apparently he 'd been giving this , this guy stick like all day . |
| 8 | Erm and people had been paying insurance i it changed then cos some of the farmers could go on their pension they 'd been paying this new scheme you see . |
| 9 | How would you feel if you 'd been paying this money for ten years and then you lived , you lived after than , and you got nothing for it basically . |
| 10 | It was pretty fucking annoying even if it was n't ; I really wanted to get the bastard because we 'd been having this stupid argument before we 'd started about how greed really was good and how William had been so disappointed at how poorly the argument was put across by the Gekko character in Wall Street . |
| 11 | Are there any naked nuns in the film ? ’ — with cool , defiant charm , while George Harrison , who 'd been doing this sort of thing since his Beatle days , kept the whole thing on an even keel with his Liverpudlian wit and wisdom . |
| 12 | ‘ From the expression on Rik 's face , you would think he 'd been doing this sort of stuff all his life , ’ Gerald says . |