Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] 'd [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got up , walked backwards towards the nearest dune , threw the can way high over the top of it , then came back , lay down where I 'd been sitting earlier , and closed my eyes . |
| 2 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 3 | He 'd watch them quietly ; and he often told me how he had a good idea where they 'd been taking their honey : if they came to their hives low , they 'd most likely have come off a field of clover . |
| 4 | In ‘ Downtown Beirut ’ , the boozery next door to the infamous ‘ Village Idiot ’ on 10th St. , ( where two Pogues ' albums continually rotate on the juke box ) , a dastardly plan was hatched to kidnap Strummer from out of the ‘ Seven B ’ bar , where he 'd been drinking all week , and substitute him onstage with Joe Hurley . |
| 5 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 6 | And went on telling him odiously about me ( one Saturday morning shopping in the Village ) and I did n't know where to look , although I 'd been wanting to meet him . |
| 7 | Capron said it had come to his attention that I 'd been meeting you and that it had to stop . ’ |
| 8 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 9 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 10 | Afterwards , I crawled backstage to visit Michael Crawford , forgetting that I 'd been wearing Clinique 's face-bronzer for that glowing , outdoor , tanned look we all know and simulate . |
| 11 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
| 12 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 13 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | There crawled into my mind one nasty little question that I 'd been fighting off till now . |
| 16 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 17 | The realization that I 'd been hankering all along to come here , and be part of it . ’ |
| 18 | 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 |
| 19 | It 's you know and my pride was getting a little bit dented that I 'd been selling market for years suddenly I was n't doing this . |
| 20 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 21 | Mind you in between that I 'd been working on the fa farm farm . |
| 22 | She told me when we were staying there that she 'd been trying to conceive ever since her wedding . ’ |
| 23 | I felt that her character had been revealed and , what was more , that she 'd been using me . |
| 24 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 25 | How dared he believe that she 'd been taking money from Travis to pay her way ? |
| 26 | It was her nail scissors that she 'd been searching for days , lost under the hearthrug and pressing into her hip ; and the cry was also her virginity , small and bewildered and gone . |
| 27 | She was in fact very thin but had this huge wire frame around her ’ It turned out that she 'd been coming in a couple of times a week , stealing hundreds of pounds worth of clothes , hanging them on her frame then walking out . |
| 28 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 29 | The summer school job that she 'd been relying on had been cancelled at the very last minute and other temporary jobs were a bit thin on the ground . |
| 30 | Miss Malabedeely had been kneeling by a chair , praying , and Kate had thought immediately that she 'd been asking God to stop Miss Shaw and Miss Rist being so unpleasant to her . |