Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] 'd [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everyone would think I 'd been messing around ! |
| 2 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 3 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 4 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 5 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 6 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I got a bit worried when I found you 'd been sending your subordinates out to buy crucifixes . ’ |
| 8 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 9 | ‘ In a fairy story one of them would ride up to the avenue here on a white horse and say they 'd been wanting you as part of their lives for years , ’ Benny said . |
| 10 | Three tenants in the house say they 'd been paying £120 a week rent to their landlord , a Mr Vincent Cox . |
| 11 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |
| 12 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
| 13 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 14 | Mind you I 'd I 'd been running er ru running the tail route , that 's another route as you meet on er goes onto a gate on the left hand side where you got wagons about eight wagons , put it put them back , fasten this rope at the back . |
| 15 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 16 | I 've seen we 'd been firing just observa observation beams they were sixty pounder guns . |
| 17 | She let out the breath she had n't even realised she 'd been holding . |
| 18 | You 'd think she 'd been doing it all her life . |
| 19 | It was only then she realised she 'd been holding her breath . |
| 20 | Virginia realised she 'd been gripping the steering-wheel unnecessarily tightly and consciously relaxed , forcing a laugh and wincing as the vibration worsened her headache . |
| 21 | After a while she realised she 'd been beating at him with her fists hard enough to hurt and yet he had n't lifted a finger to stop her . |
| 22 | He 's going to be ages , thought Juliet desperately , suddenly realising she 'd been standing with her hands clenched together , and her eyes screwed tightly as if to hear better . |
| 23 | I 'd thought you 'd been getting exercise in . |
| 24 | She said yeah I 'll be alright , but I could see she 'd been crying earlier on in the evening , she said you always feel as if you 're |
| 25 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 26 | ‘ I ca n't believe she 'd been drinking . |
| 27 | I suspect she 'd been following that fool of a carrier . ’ |
| 28 | If she had n't known better she 'd have thought he 'd been drinking . |
| 29 | ‘ I suppose they showed he 'd been drinking ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Perhaps I should sell the place and be done with it , ’ he said with an abruptness that showed he 'd been considering the idea for some time . |