Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] 'd been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It was just that a couple of times I 'd been looking out , or I 'd just glance up as I passed , and , well , I 'd seen her there . |
| 2 | just that the punk I 'd been watching would hold open a car door for somebody else , the new top operator . |
| 3 | I wanted to top up the pond I 'd been cleaning out . |
| 4 | A lot of them related to the data I 'd been passing but also he 'd want to know who I 'd been talking to . |
| 5 | ‘ Yup , ’ she 'd said , shifting down to fourth as a car she 'd been waiting to pass pulled back into the slow lane . |
| 6 | Since that time , little has changed on the battlefield ; with a plentiful supply of Chinese arms and money , and bases in Thailand from which to operate , the Khmer Rouge was strong enough to resist the Vietnamese , But when Vietnam pulled out last year , the stalemate was broken ; Britain and the United States who 'd been backing other less murderous guerrilla factions , began to tire of the war and withdrew their support . |
| 7 | No one was jumping for joy because they 'd finally got the piece they 'd been searching for for years . |
| 8 | He bent to pick up the card he 'd been carrying then scowled at the deserted foyer . |
| 9 | He 'd never seen anyone in Jubilee Wood in all the months he 'd been coming up here . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The vasectomy dated from 1980 , when a girl I 'd been sleeping with told me she was embarazada . |
| 12 | I said I could see Victor was right , I had over-complicated the plot ; I should not have introduced the letters , which were paraphrases of a correspondence I 'd been reading on my journey to London . |
| 13 | Bernice quickly unrolled the bundle she 'd been carrying beneath her arm and thrust Ace 's blood-soaked jacket into the Doctor 's hands . |
| 14 | Rain said : ‘ If Sabine Jourdain planned to reveal how much of Durance 's work she 'd been doing for him , a lot of people would have preferred she did n't . ’ |
| 15 | The kind of betrayal she 'd been believing him guilty of was mean , petty-minded , and he was none of those things . |
| 16 | It would be so easy to give up the battle she 'd been waging against him , simply to lay down her arms and give herself up to the ecstasy of possession . |
| 17 | I talked to the boy who 'd been trying to help this Frome — trying to get him to vomit it up , and so on . |
| 18 | I accompanied them into the street where they rejoined the boy who 'd been standing look-out . |
| 19 | this boy who 'd been doing it a few years . |
| 20 | ‘ Have what done ? ’ asked the child who 'd been listening . |
| 21 | The voice was not what I 'd have expected from a girl who 'd been playing house with a mug like Mahoney . |
| 22 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 23 | On landing there was none of the Spanish bureaucracy we 'd been expecting — you just need your passport number for the fuel bill . |
| 24 | Chris described to her in painstaking detail the story of the cartoon they 'd been watching . |
| 25 | His brow cleared after the terrific mental exercise he 'd been putting in . |
| 26 | I was disillusioned with all the experts who 'd been predicting one thing or another ; they obviously did n't know any more than anybody else . |
| 27 | Ace asked in a tone that betrayed the worry she 'd been trying to hide . |
| 28 | The following morning you washed the shirt you 'd been wearing , the pullover and the trousers . |
| 29 | Picking up the internal telephone , she buzzed Stephanie , abruptly coming to a decision she 'd been wrestling with for a couple of days , one she considered to be eminently sensible and practical … |
| 30 | Pulling a little face , she carefully folded the tea-towel she 'd been using and laid it on the work surface . |