Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd been [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ever since I started consultancy work in politics , I 'd been pushing for the use of this simple invention — a British one — but it was n't until after President Reagan used it in his address to the Houses of Parliament that our politicians felt it was worthy of notice . |
| 2 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |
| 3 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 4 | She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by . |
| 5 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 6 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 7 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 8 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |