Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I said I 'd been chasing him all over the world . |
| 32 | Not only had I gained the technical degree I 'd been chasing , but I 'd finally achieved a position in a business when I could use that expertise to its full potential . |
| 33 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 34 | Within minutes the car was free , and before I could thank the young farmer I 'd been invited back for a cup of tea and some hot broth . |
| 35 | I 'd been invited to dinner too , but declined . |
| 36 | I 'd been mucking around and none of my mates like that . |
| 37 | Big Lou came out with a story that I 'd been fired — but I resigned . ’ |
| 38 | I popped in to see what the form was , and to find out if I 'd been fired as a house-sitter . |
| 39 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 40 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 41 | I 'd been muttering unhappily to a couple of friends about how hopelessly disorganized a particular campaign I 'd got involved with seemed to be when a strange man next to us started a similar but louder tirade about how useless Switchboard was , how everyone knew they were ripping off money from their fund raising and what a lousy job they did in his ( extremely small and third-hand ) experience . |
| 42 | She 'd sided with my parents a couple of years before when I 'd been thinking of a career as an artist , and they were opposed to that … |
| 43 | ‘ That 's just what I 'd been thinking ! ’ answered Gabriel in surprise . |
| 44 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 45 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 46 | ‘ And I 'd been thinking of you only yesterday . |
| 47 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 48 | ‘ I 'd been thinking of it , ’ he said . |
| 49 | Oh , that 's what I 'd been thinking , fifty percent of what they want . |
| 50 | I 'd been thinking of you know things that that I had that can go . |
| 51 | It had got considerably thicker while I 'd been eating . |
| 52 | Chris had insisted that if he was going to go out there , then so was I. I 'd been searching for a way out all night , but nothing convincing came to mind . |
| 53 | Rayleen did n't find anything else broken , though she seemed convinced I 'd been run over by a steamroller . |
| 54 | I tried it once and burnt my mouth so badly I looked like I 'd been kissing superglue . |
| 55 | It was body language I 'd been counting on to win her round . |
| 56 | Ever since I started consultancy work in politics , I 'd been pushing for the use of this simple invention — a British one — but it was n't until after President Reagan used it in his address to the Houses of Parliament that our politicians felt it was worthy of notice . |
| 57 | For a moment I felt better , then my face chanced to come alongside the face of a three-foot-high king in a crown — I 'd been pushing down hard on the bishop 's corpse memory , now he reared up again … |
| 58 | I mean , I probably dreamt it because I 'd been hearing all their dreams and thinking about them . |
| 59 | I 'd been loading for him , loading the t coal into tubs and tramming them . |
| 60 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |