Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd be [verb] for [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been loading for him , loading the t coal into tubs and tramming them . |
| 2 | Some items I 'd been holding for him . |
| 3 | Look , ’ and she opened her handbag and reached inside , ‘ this was one I 'd been saving for him — ’ Her voice cracked and she began to cry . |
| 4 | Actually , I 'd been waiting for somebody else but I just happened to be on hand and I could n't just stand there and watch her struggle with all those boxes , suitcases , typewriters , bicycles , stereo systems and so on . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , I 'd been waiting for her , too ! |
| 6 | I got this job in the machine sh in one of the lock shops and er for a fellow , I worked for him and er after I 'd been working for him they wanted me to work for somebody else but this fellow would n't let me go . |
| 7 | Karen had dipped badly in her A-levels and had done two years in a commerce school before she 'd been accepted for her degree course . |
| 8 | This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him . |
| 9 | Frau Geller murmured something to her companion about it never happening to a woman unless she 'd been asking for it . |
| 10 | She 'd been waiting for you . ’ |
| 11 | Rain said : ‘ If Sabine Jourdain planned to reveal how much of Durance 's work she 'd been doing for him , a lot of people would have preferred she did n't . ’ |
| 12 | But she 'd taken an instant liking to you and for years she 'd been agitating for me to settle down . ’ |
| 13 | They 'd been waiting for me , it seemed , in a mutual absence of civility . |
| 14 | The third she found broken , knocked over on to its side , the water dripping from a puddle on the windowsill on to a seat below and through that on to the floor , and the flowers scattered and brown-edged , as if they 'd been picked for their beauty and freshness by a little girl and then loosed regardlessly on the path from her sticky hands as she ran off to do something else . |
| 15 | So he 'd been looking for her . |
| 16 | Well driving and for erm you know he had plant hire , he 'd been driving for him and that . |