Example sentences of "[adv] they 'd be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean when you 're on picket line it 's very depressing it 's very heart breaking unless you get some comedian or something you know it gets er y you do n't know what to do with yourself and perhaps they 'd been taking pots of this paint I 'm not saying . |
| 2 | So they 'd been playing cat and mouse game and er it has n't paid off you know . |
| 3 | So they 'd been talking about it already . |
| 4 | Well me Auntie Jean and me Mum got passed once , like they 'd been going down and scrubbing it from side at bath and everything . |
| 5 | Maybe they 'd been meeting in secret for a while . |
| 6 | Yes that , I think that 's possibly true , er , I was talking to Cambridge there about oh fifteen , twenty minutes ago and they said it was raining with them , and then they 'd been talking over to somebody over in Coventry and it 's , it 's snowing there |
| 7 | True , there had been a few unhappy minutes when they 'd been having coffee in Karlovy Vary when she and Ven had reared up at each other . |
| 8 | Instantly , three athletic-looking youths sprang from a doorway where they 'd been idling just a short distance along the road . |
| 9 | You 'd go to a school where they 'd been doing French or Latin for two or three years and you had n't done any at all . |
| 10 | And as I continued to think about how we rarely get the measure of little children , I suddenly realized why they 'd been making so much din . |