Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] 'd been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
| 4 | This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him . |
| 5 | The strong fingers peeling the nightshirt upwards , the exploring hunger of the hard mouth on her stomach , her breasts , her lips , it felt as if she 'd been waiting for ever for these feelings … |
| 6 | So , you did so many miles per hour , we calculated , you would have done so many miles if you 'd been going for a full hour at that speed , so your dis your , your speed , velocity really but we 'll call it speed , right ? |
| 7 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The third she found broken , knocked over on to its side , the water dripping from a puddle on the windowsill on to a seat below and through that on to the floor , and the flowers scattered and brown-edged , as if they 'd been picked for their beauty and freshness by a little girl and then loosed regardlessly on the path from her sticky hands as she ran off to do something else . |
| 10 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 11 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 12 | Frau Geller murmured something to her companion about it never happening to a woman unless she 'd been asking for it . |
| 13 | The fog lifted and the house became filled with a babble of excitable people , few of whom spoke English and who all arrived at once because they 'd been waiting for a clear passage . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 15 | I got this job in the machine sh in one of the lock shops and er for a fellow , I worked for him and er after I 'd been working for him they wanted me to work for somebody else but this fellow would n't let me go . |
| 16 | Karen had dipped badly in her A-levels and had done two years in a commerce school before she 'd been accepted for her degree course . |
| 17 | And then maybe after it 'd been cut for two days , you were sent out to turn the swathes , up all you went along and you turned them and turned them . |
| 18 | But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs . |
| 19 | ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family . |