Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] 'd been [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There crawled into my mind one nasty little question that I 'd been fighting off till now . |
| 2 | In all the months that she 'd been going out with Adrian , he 'd never once asked to talk to her like that , in that special way , during school time . |
| 3 | I realized then that we 'd been barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 4 | Yeah well at the end of the day I mean I I was n't there but a the facts at the end of the day were that they 'd been buggering about with that radio system which they should n't do . |
| 5 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 6 | When he felt brave enough he took off the old pullover and the tracksuit pants that he 'd been sleeping in and started to dress . |
| 7 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
| 8 | For them the time must have flown by , but for me it seemed as if I 'd been standing out there all morning ! |
| 9 | If you 'd been facing back there you 'd be swearing that was east . |
| 10 | But if you 'd been playing about with your sister 's husband you might feel inhibited . |
| 11 | well needs a I think one of the things we discussed in the branch action group meeting is actually , were n't quite sure what the cos we 'd been sending out for quite less than ten of the branches because to do something to them which was mm apparently lots of them in but erm well they keep disappearing so that the what we 've been talking about is to try and get some points erm health and safety station within the branch , which actually just has all this stuff for it . |
| 12 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
| 13 | boy , boy friends before , they married them , they were n't sleep , if they 'd been sleeping around then I would of said something , then I would of said something to them , |
| 14 | Edouard said he 'd been obliged to keep an elderly English woman there for a few days , but she 'd been slipping out . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He he had us all lined up after we 'd been riding round and he started enquiring how long we 'd been out of hospital . |
| 17 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |