Example sentences of "[conj] i 'd [been] [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Afterwards , I crawled backstage to visit Michael Crawford , forgetting that I 'd been wearing Clinique 's face-bronzer for that glowing , outdoor , tanned look we all know and simulate . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If I 'd been painting shadows they 'd have been blue or grey , but real shadows are n't nearly so simple ! ’ |
| 5 | I tried it once and burnt my mouth so badly I looked like I 'd been kissing superglue . |
| 6 | But I 'd been working nights to live on . |
| 7 | ‘ I went on to a party in Cambridge after I 'd been catching swifts , and in the middle of the party a horrible large green thing , a flightless parasitic fly , found on swifts , crawled crabwise out of my hair on to my dinner jacket — it was a dinner jacket sort of party . |