Example sentences of "'d been [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been annoying the Dasses . |
| 2 | All the same , he wished he 'd paid a little more attention to what had gone on when he 'd been leaving the depot so that he could have spotted when they carried out that trick with the form he was supposed to have dropped . |
| 3 | They 're being sold by an enthusiast who 'd been collecting the models since he was a boy . |
| 4 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 5 | Last night , standing on the deck of Devlin 's ketch as they rapidly approached the island , she 'd been thinking the same thing . |
| 6 | 2 families had to leave their homes after they were terrorised by a mob , angry they 'd been helping the Police to catch the joyriders . |
| 7 | The debt counsellor who 'd been helping the Harrises said Dorend Ltd had agreed to wave interest of around £30,000 . |
| 8 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 9 | I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She guessed that Mike Booker would be calling curses down on her head because he 'd been hoping a one-two win at Estoril would clinch the constructors ' championship for Carlisle Flint , quite apart from putting Ace into an unbeatable lead . |
| 12 | So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get . |
| 13 | They 'd been sharing a cell for the last two years . |
| 14 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 15 | I 'd been expecting a great hall with a giant round table , towering turrets , a moat and a drawbridge , but , of course , it turned out to be a ruin . |
| 16 | Back on his farm a few miles from a crash site , Mr Hayton said he 'd been expecting a longer sentence . |
| 17 | Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone . |
| 18 | Eye to the crack in the door , Jezrael saw the girl 's own guilt palm the cuber as though she 'd been watching the security scanner all along . |
| 19 | They 'd been watching the site for some time . |
| 20 | They 'd been watching the premises for several months . |
| 21 | And er he did n't blame me one bit of doing that because we 'd been getting the run around . |
| 22 | He 'd been adjusting the driving mirror and he 'd only taken his eyes off the road for a moment . |
| 23 | ‘ They 'd been raiding the school at the end of Dwyer Street . ’ |
| 24 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 25 | She thought she knew what might have been on his mind , because he 'd been writing a letter in the Lounge . |
| 26 | He also told police he 'd been copying a homosexual video tape . |
| 27 | Everything in bilingual Canada was written in both English and French and I realized that since my arrival I 'd been reading the French quite easily . |
| 28 | Well , it had come about while he 'd been receiving the wet canvas treatment . |
| 29 | ‘ He 'd been drinking a lot . |
| 30 | He chuckled to himself , put down the cup he 'd been drinking the water from , wiped his lips . |