Example sentences of "[pron] 'd [been] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I probably dreamt it because I 'd been hearing all their dreams and thinking about them . |
| 2 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 3 | I 'd been using most of it anyway , like . |
| 4 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 5 | I 'd been leading such a rackety life — Edouard , you ca n't imagine . |
| 6 | The realization that I 'd been hankering all along to come here , and be part of it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 9 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 10 | I was in Italy , it was early morning , and I 'd been lying awake for about three hours . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd been planning that very thing . ’ |
| 13 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 14 | I had , I had a letter the other day saying that I 'd been paying thirty nine pounds , fifty a week to live on , but I 've been entitled to fifty five pound something for low income support so are they gon na backdate all that and then get their |
| 15 | You allus had a laugh , even if you 'd been a-cryin' two minutes afore that . |
| 16 | How would you feel if you 'd been paying this money for ten years and then you lived , you lived after than , and you got nothing for it basically . |
| 17 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 18 | So let's look at now you 've been doing I noticed today you 'd been doing differentiating products . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | She 'd been dreading this . |
| 21 | She 'd been buying some sweets at a local newsagent minutes before the accident . |
| 22 | She 'd worn slacks all through rehearsals and the only other times he 'd seen her she 'd been wearing that dreary suit . |
| 23 | She 'd been using these for years , ever since a practical demonstration by an art-school technician fired her to experiment with felting techniques . |
| 24 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
| 25 | 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 ? |
| 26 | She 'd been feeling sick a morning or two , but not so as it interfered with her work , and no one remarked on it . |
| 27 | She 'd been feeling lonely and vulnerable . |
| 28 | I suspect she 'd been following that fool of a carrier . ’ |
| 29 | She 'd been waiting all her life for this man , this moment . |
| 30 | As she flicked over memories of the day — embracing in the cold silken water , under that mysterious layer of white mist which cut off the sky above yet gave clear vision to the other side , a quarter of a mile away — the sense of wicked escape , as they laughed together in the empty lunch-time pub … she decided that she would tell her mother she 'd been working both Sundays . |