Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd been [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 2 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 3 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 5 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 7 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 8 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 9 | The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving . |
| 10 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 11 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 12 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 13 | I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government . |
| 14 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 15 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 16 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 17 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 18 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 19 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 20 | Five minutes later he came in trying to tell tell us jokes and each time he 'd been paddling through this brake fluid and the carpet is just you know , brains |