Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd been [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him I 'd been talking to Richie . |
| 2 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 3 | We 'd been moaning to Malcolm about wanting to play some gigs . |
| 4 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 5 | And he 'd known it , all the time he 'd been trying to bed her . |
| 6 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |
| 7 | Of course , he 'd been talking to Maria Luisa ; he had nothing to say to Steve . |