Example sentences of "'d be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | You allus had a laugh , even if you 'd been a-cryin' two minutes afore that . |
2 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | I 'd been using most of it anyway , like . |
5 | She 'd been using these for years , ever since a practical demonstration by an art-school technician fired her to experiment with felting techniques . |
6 | 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 ? |
7 | Recently we 'd been taking ten minutes a night off it in order to have more time in the pub . |
8 | And there was the gatepost Dad had driven into because he 'd been eyeing some young girl instead of looking where he was going . |
9 | He 'd been expecting tight security at the entrance , but in the event the gates were open and unmanned , and a passing employee directed him along a concrete road leading to the garage where a man in blue overalls was washing one of the Fiat saloons . |
10 | We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous . |
11 | And he 'd been getting worse , no doubt about that . |
12 | As she 'd said to Ben when they 'd been getting ready to go to bed last night , you could practically feel the highly charged sexy atmosphere between that pair of love-birds ! |
13 | I mean , I probably dreamt it because I 'd been hearing all their dreams and thinking about them . |
14 | In fact the night he died , the Saturday , we 'd been fishing all day , just the two of us . |
15 | She 'd been buying some sweets at a local newsagent minutes before the accident . |
16 | He 'd been smoking 50 a day for 40 years . |
17 | ‘ We 'd been seeing each other for a year when he suggested we should move in together . |
18 | ‘ 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 . |
19 | The same old crowd , but he 'd been seeing much less of them . |
20 | Although he said he 'd bought them from another dealer , the police proved he 'd been handling stolen goods . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | She 'd been dreading this . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Yeah , well even Laura like she eats salad at school like you know , but erm , she 's got erm , what did we have the other night cos we 'd been eating semi semi Mediterranean food this week |
25 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
26 | But lately he 'd been concealing this whiff with his favourite aftershave , Rampage . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | He 'd been screwing all day and he 'd walk into the camp fucking going |
29 | She 'd worn slacks all through rehearsals and the only other times he 'd seen her she 'd been wearing that dreary suit . |
30 | 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 . |