Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd [be] [verb] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 3 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 4 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 5 | The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving . |
| 6 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 7 | I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government . |
| 8 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 9 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 10 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |