Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd been [v-ing] [noun sg] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 2 | It 's you know and my pride was getting a little bit dented that I 'd been selling market for years suddenly I was n't doing this . |
| 3 | ‘ She 'd been taking hush-money for the last ten years . ’ |
| 4 | We 'd been providing cover for the convoy , when a vehicle went over a land mine . |
| 5 | You , you , you 've all hea heard of Marie Curie , famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century she in fact was Polish , lived in , in , in Paris , married a French man called Pierre er hence she 's known as Marie Curie well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that , th the fact that there did n't seem to be any biological affects er certainly the doses of radiation that , that they were , they were getting they 'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende , that 's radioactive ore they extracted several grammes of radium from it , they 'd been handling stuff for years they were n't ill , they obviously had n't died and so on . |
| 6 | At the Court of Appeal today , Rachael 's solicitor explained that he 'd been frightened of losing the children , and that for several weeks before the killing he 'd been taking medication for depression . |
| 7 | He 'd been receiving treatment for depression and friends believe he committed suicide . |