Example sentences of "'d [be] [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I 'd been using most of it anyway , like . |
| 4 | She 'd been using these for years , ever since a practical demonstration by an art-school technician fired her to experiment with felting techniques . |
| 5 | There must be hundreds of people named McMahon — Be ironic , though , would n't it , if she 'd been staying all this time in the house of the woman she was looking for ? |
| 6 | And there was the gatepost Dad had driven into because he 'd been eyeing some young girl instead of looking where he was going . |
| 7 | We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous . |
| 8 | I mean , I probably dreamt it because I 'd been hearing all their dreams and thinking about them . |
| 9 | In fact the night he died , the Saturday , we 'd been fishing all day , just the two of us . |
| 10 | She 'd been buying some sweets at a local newsagent minutes before the accident . |
| 11 | ‘ We 'd been seeing each other for a year when he suggested we should move in together . |
| 12 | ‘ You do n't know who he is , but last night in the pub you asked Mr Hatton if he 'd been seeing much of McCloy lately . |
| 13 | The same old crowd , but he 'd been seeing much less of them . |
| 14 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 15 | She 'd been dreading this . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But lately he 'd been concealing this whiff with his favourite aftershave , Rampage . |
| 18 | Apparently he 'd been telling all the other English teachers about it and now they all wanted their classes to see and hear about Hadwick 's owl . |
| 19 | He 'd been screwing all day and he 'd walk into the camp fucking going |
| 20 | She 'd worn slacks all through rehearsals and the only other times he 'd seen her she 'd been wearing that dreary suit . |
| 21 | He almost certainly had a pearl fedora to go with the image and brown and white two-tone shoes , if he 'd been wearing any . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 24 | She 'd been waiting all her life for this man , this moment . |
| 25 | I 'd been leading such a rackety life — Edouard , you ca n't imagine . |
| 26 | And then little did he know when he used to leave them in the house , in the back yard , that we 'd been pinching some of them . |
| 27 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 28 | Well I mean I , apparently he 'd been giving this , this guy stick like all day . |
| 29 | One evening , after he 'd been answering more questions from Coombs and Beeding , Quigley came into my room when I was doing my homework . |
| 30 | He had big banks of lights and speakers on either side of his console with some lower-level relays here in the ballroom ; he 'd been running some smoke and dry ice earlier , and some of it still hung in the air and gave the lighted area beyond the doorways the effect of some offworld film set . |