Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 2 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 6 | I 'd been indulging in good heart exercise while sitting still . |
| 7 | The vasectomy dated from 1980 , when a girl I 'd been sleeping with told me she was embarazada . |
| 8 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 10 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 11 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 12 | I 'd been falling since nineteen |
| 13 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 14 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 17 | She 'd been living with one of his men , a guy who knew a lot about his affairs , and Connie could n't help knowing plenty of things that Bonanza would not want advertised on the radio . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It was an appreciative whistle and one that Rachel recognised , for since she 'd been working with five thousand men she had become well used to whistles of that nature . |
| 20 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 21 | She 'd been missing for 24 hours , her disappearance reported by her boyfriend , himself arrested and questioned by police , but then released . |
| 22 | We 'd been bickering since New Year and she 'd flounced out of my city flat in early May , darkly muttering , Nevermore ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 25 | They 'd been queuing since 5 a.m. in the morning and as the wait continued , so did the length of the queue . |
| 26 | ‘ It appears there 'd been a big row and a parting of the ways before my agent tracked them down , but my premise was right : they 'd been staying with one of Svend 's college friends at his parents ’ apartment on the outskirts of the city . |
| 27 | Maybe she 'd always had someone to look after her ; he 'd been living with darned socks and the stitch-in-time philosophy all his life , first his mother and then Margaret , who sorted her stockings out into ones she could wear to the office and ones which were only good for gardening . |
| 28 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 29 | He was n't wearing the suit he 'd been wearing in Furnival Gardens . |
| 30 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |