Example sentences of "[pron] 'd been [v-ing] [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | If I 'd been planning to abandon you , as you so melodramatically put it , I 'd have made a much better job of it . |
| 3 | I 'd been meaning to do it for days and I keep asking myself whether it was my fault her killer got in . ’ |
| 4 | She 'd been planning to have it repaired as soon as she could afford to , for , although she knew she could have claimed the cost through her insurance , she could n't afford to lose her no-claims bonus . |
| 5 | He 'd told her what to get ; she 'd been going to get him flared jeans ! ) , and he thought he looked pretty good in his snow-white shirt , black jacket , white trainers and lightly blonded dark hair . |
| 6 | He said he 'd been wanting to ring me all day but did n't want to interrupt my work . |
| 7 | He said he 'd been meaning to invite us to dinner ever since he arrived . |