Example sentences of "'d been [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 2 | I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They 'd been sharing a cell for the last two years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Back on his farm a few miles from a crash site , Mr Hayton said he 'd been expecting a longer sentence . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 10 | She thought she knew what might have been on his mind , because he 'd been writing a letter in the Lounge . |
| 11 | He also told police he 'd been copying a homosexual video tape . |
| 12 | ‘ He 'd been drinking a lot . |
| 13 | My local bank manager said that means she 'd been renting a deposit box . |
| 14 | as if she 'd been wearing a coat of many many colours , and , beached on the desert island shore of Pity Me , had shredded the damn shrunken thing . |
| 15 | ‘ If she 'd been wearing a helmet , she might have lived , ’ says Officer Carmine Menchel , who visited the scene later . |
| 16 | He felt that if he 'd been wearing a gun , this man would have known . |
| 17 | I 'd been applying a special cream to his ankles which was supposed to harden the skin , but it did n't seem to do much good . |
| 18 | Now you can work out for yourselves that if you 'd been betting a pound on each of those horses you 'd have finished up substantially down . |
| 19 | He 'd been making a living , that was all , and now he was going to swing for it because the fucking book would n't fucking burn ! |
| 20 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |
| 21 | I 'd been researching an article for an historical magazine . |
| 22 | Just for a second there , she 'd been uncovering a softer , more human side to the man . |
| 23 | ‘ The man , who was known to the police , was one of the knockers they 'd been keeping an eye on . |
| 24 | ‘ Mum says he should have looked first , Dad says if she 'd been keeping an eye on him he would have been fine . |
| 25 | Ron said that he 'd been preparing an obituary of Lord Mountbatten for some time , that Mountbatten had somehow got wind of it and had approached the BBC with a view to taking part . |
| 26 | And there was something about him , an aura of confidence and power , as he stood there facing her across the bonnet of the Mini that told her that even if she 'd been driving a tank there was no way in the world he would have let her go past . |
| 27 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 28 | She 'd been having a nightmare . |
| 29 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
| 30 | All the better that the operation rehabilitated the credibility of the police who 'd been having a bad press in the early years of the decade . |