Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] i 'd be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 2 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 3 | Mind you I 'd I 'd been running er ru running the tail route , that 's another route as you meet on er goes onto a gate on the left hand side where you got wagons about eight wagons , put it put them back , fasten this rope at the back . |
| 4 | I knew I 'd been dreaming again ( or whatever we call it ) because , when I came out of it , the wooden post — that old pile I 'd clung to like a drowning man — was nowhere ! |
| 5 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 6 | I think I 'd been expecting something good when I reach the village — a bed for the night , perhaps — but the place was deserted . |
| 7 | I said I 'd been chasing him all over the world . |
| 8 | ‘ She was complaining at not being able to get through because my number was engaged and I said I 'd been talking to you . |
| 9 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 10 | You know , he thought I 'd been telling him a lie . |