Example sentences of "[pron] 'd [been] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been jumping up and down like an eejit for a couple of minutes before the bloke next to me tapped me politely on the shoulder to point out the linesman and his flag . |
| 2 | I 'd been mucking around and none of my mates like that . |
| 3 | 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 … |
| 4 | I 'd been looking down all the time we were talking , but he made me look up then , and our eyes met and I know something passed between us . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | I had n't had a lot of luck finding the man I wanted , but at least I 'd been getting up to date on my social exercises , like who was drinking with who , and in what bars . |
| 7 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
| 8 | ‘ Everyone would think I 'd been messing around ! |
| 9 | You 're right , are n't you Yes , once he got going , I knew why I 'd been holding back . |
| 10 | I wanted to top up the pond I 'd been cleaning out . |
| 11 | There crawled into my mind one nasty little question that I 'd been fighting off till now . |
| 12 | ‘ The one against Ruddock was more natural , more instinctive , something I 'd been working on . |
| 13 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 14 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
| 15 | I 'd been going round all morning and never seen him . |
| 16 | I 'd been going out burgling , like . |
| 17 | I 'd been going out with Heather on and off , with one or two other girls in between . |
| 18 | For them the time must have flown by , but for me it seemed as if I 'd been standing out there all morning ! |
| 19 | If you 'd been facing back there you 'd be swearing that was east . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'd say you 'd been sitting out in the sun too long . ’ |
| 21 | But if you 'd been playing about with your sister 's husband you might feel inhibited . |
| 22 | You er last time I saw you , you were I did n't know whether you 'd been starting up in er in photography but you had been next door I think or I 'd seen a lot of your stuff . |
| 23 | Edouard said he 'd been obliged to keep an elderly English woman there for a few days , but she 'd been slipping out . ’ |
| 24 | She 'd been letting on that she lived in one of those posh houses . |
| 25 | She 'd been carrying on outside all morning and |
| 26 | Once she could not have imagined a greater disaster — all the garments she 'd been working on , with such dedication , day and night , for weeks on end now , had totally vanished , disappeared . |
| 27 | All the time she 'd been wittering on about Jennifer and her illness , he had kept this to himself , suffering in silence . |
| 28 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 29 | Course I di I did n't get to know much else but it was obvious you see , she 'd been going out with a young man , her husband was in the Forces and er she 'd tried to get rid of it . |
| 30 | In all the months that she 'd been going out with Adrian , he 'd never once asked to talk to her like that , in that special way , during school time . |