Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd been [v-ing] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't had a lot of luck finding the man I wanted , but at least I 'd been getting up to date on my social exercises , like who was drinking with who , and in what bars . |
| 2 | Even if they 'd been sitting down to breakfast with a headless horseman . ’ |
| 3 | Yes that , I think that 's possibly true , er , I was talking to Cambridge there about oh fifteen , twenty minutes ago and they said it was raining with them , and then they 'd been talking over to somebody over in Coventry and it 's , it 's snowing there |
| 4 | What he 'd been leading up to all week ? |
| 5 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |