Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd been [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each week he would sit me on his knee and , under the pretence of asking me about the things I 'd been doing at school , he would squeeze my thighs and waist . |
| 2 | If I 'd been working at home today I should have put on my old skirt and my old pullover , so as to have something comfortably rough and worn around me . |
| 3 | She 'd been counting on rescue services arriving with the dawn , but maybe they would n't be coming after all . |
| 4 | This time last night she 'd been lying in Dane 's arms , feeling safe , secure , at peace with the world for perhaps the first time in her troubled life . |
| 5 | She 'd been longing for peace and quiet so that she could get on with her carving , and , now that she had it , was standing here like a loon ! |
| 6 | Maybe they 'd been meeting in secret for a while . |
| 7 | I thought that , instead of speaking from his notes that he 'd been speaking from year after year , he was reassessing what he was doing . |
| 8 | One Saturday night he 'd been drinking in front of the telly when he decided to phone Sheila 's place . |
| 9 | And he 'd known it , all the time he 'd been trying to bed her . |
| 10 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence , and he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenging him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 11 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence . |
| 12 | He wore an open-neck shirt and trousers that needed pressing , but he 'd apologized for his ‘ unkempt ’ condition when he 'd first greeted them , explaining that he 'd been decorating at home and had pulled on the first things to hand in his haste to get to the waxworks . |
| 13 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |