Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd been [v-ing] there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 2 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 3 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 4 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 5 | He 'd been waiting there for me , I concluded . |
| 6 | And yes , he 'd been working there for several days . |