Example sentences of "'d been [v-ing] all " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | I mean , I probably dreamt it because I 'd been hearing all their dreams and thinking about them . |
| 3 | In fact the night he died , the Saturday , we 'd been fishing all day , just the two of us . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He 'd been screwing all day and he 'd walk into the camp fucking going |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . |
| 9 | She 'd been waiting all her life for this man , this moment . |
| 10 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 11 | When I came out , wearing the least horrid of the shirts he 'd bought for me , he stood up ( he 'd been sitting all the time by the door ) . |
| 12 | ‘ We 'd been walking all day , brushing through great webs of giant spiders , and at one stage I looked back at Adrian Arbin , who I was with , and it was like a horror film — his face was running with blood , blood running into his eyes , down his neck , staining his shirt . |
| 13 | The realization that I 'd been hankering all along to come here , and be part of it . ’ |