Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] 'd been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wore an open-neck shirt and trousers that needed pressing , but he 'd apologized for his ‘ unkempt ’ condition when he 'd first greeted them , explaining that he 'd been decorating at home and had pulled on the first things to hand in his haste to get to the waxworks . |
| 2 | The trouble started after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd been drinking . |
| 3 | The trouble started after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd been drinking . |
| 4 | The trouble started after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd been drinking . |
| 5 | The trouble started after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd been drinking . |
| 6 | So I do n't know whether they 'd been sending them away , to be er as patterns to some other firm or what , but there was quite a quant there was er a quantity of of casting sand you know black stuff that you use . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Pascoe realized that he 'd been asking questions that Susan had n't answered . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The 18-year-old who caused the accident admitted that he 'd been driving recklessly . |
| 11 | He revealed that he 'd been intending to do an act at the Easter Fete but had abandoned it because he 'd decided it was a load of rubbish . |
| 12 | ‘ Mum says he should have looked first , Dad says if she 'd been keeping an eye on him he would have been fine . |
| 13 | Just imagine if he 'd been sitting there with his legs dangling outside . |
| 14 | He was so starry-eyed when he finally made it bedwards with true love Michelle Pfeiffer , he would n't have noticed if she 'd been wearing Dr Martens . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | How dared he believe that she 'd been taking money from Travis to pay her way ? |
| 17 | Sinews bunched and moved under his skin like oiled spaghetti ; Carson guessed that he 'd been posing and flexing in front of a mirror . |
| 18 | The publican replied that he 'd been talking to his dog . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | His eyebrows would have disappeared if he 'd been wearing his helmet . |
| 21 | The Emissary 's Illusochamber had also been free of bugging devices as I 'd found when I 'd been fiddling with my headband , activating a mini-ceptor in one of the jewels . |
| 22 | I tried it once and burnt my mouth so badly I looked like I 'd been kissing superglue . |
| 23 | He was asked if he 'd been drinking and he said he 'd a glass of wine . |
| 24 | You do n't know , I mean he could of gone if he 'd been lying in a chair wa watching the |
| 25 | ‘ It would n't have happened if you 'd been steering , ’ she said miserably . |
| 26 | But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs . |
| 27 | But I had been er made a mon I think I told you this before , a monitor and I used to dodge all these sort of things and erm I used to go after I 'd been putting the books out for the next lesson , I could go to the library and I used to sit down and read . |
| 28 | Ron said that he 'd been preparing an obituary of Lord Mountbatten for some time , that Mountbatten had somehow got wind of it and had approached the BBC with a view to taking part . |
| 29 | And maybe she would n't have been expecting him to ‘ dance attendance ’ on her if she had n't soon discovered that he 'd been spending so much time with his personal assistant ! |
| 30 | 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 . |