Example sentences of "'d been having " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 2 | She 'd been having a nightmare . |
| 3 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 4 | He said that the rain we 'd been having here had fallen as snow on the top of the pass . |
| 5 | I 'd been having to dig my nails into the palm of my hand very hard in order to stop the tears streaming , which I could n't let happen as I was to speak next and needed to keep steady . |
| 6 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 7 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
| 8 | There were rumours they 'd been having an affair while he was actually teaching her , when she would have been fifteen ; there were rumours the girl was pregnant . |
| 9 | All the better that the operation rehabilitated the credibility of the police who 'd been having a bad press in the early years of the decade . |
| 10 | It was pretty fucking annoying even if it was n't ; I really wanted to get the bastard because we 'd been having this stupid argument before we 'd started about how greed really was good and how William had been so disappointed at how poorly the argument was put across by the Gekko character in Wall Street . |
| 11 | ‘ Suppose I 'd been having the breakdown . |
| 12 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 13 | Then they went back to camp and the only person there was Miguel the interpreter , who 'd been having a long conversation with one of the Indians and when he turned round all the other Indians had scarpered . |
| 14 | Some sort of ex-military man who 'd been having some rather rough games with some of the boys . |
| 15 | He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ? |
| 16 | I 'd been having a bit of a go about putting your hand up but every time he put his hand up I 'm bending over somebody or I 'm in a different part of the room . |
| 17 | Erm , I had n't actually felt that violent , I 'd been having extremes of emotion all week erm , very high , very low , very very fearful , panic attacks which I 'd never had before in my life . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The man who killed officer worker Anna McGurk has told a jury he 'd been having an affair with her before her death . |
| 20 | Fifty Russian orphans who 'd been having the holiday of a lifetime in Britain have returned home … many of them in tears . |
| 21 | Fifty Russian orphans who 'd been having the holiday of a lifetime in Britain have returned home … many of them in tears . |
| 22 | That 's why I think people got in debt because they 'd been having things that they could n't afford , I mean er , at one time you was never encouraged to ha er have things , now I mean the minute they see you 're getting low on your , oh have something else , have something else |
| 23 | Derek said they 'd been having sex ! |