Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] 'd been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | just that the punk I 'd been watching would hold open a car door for somebody else , the new top operator . |
| 2 | I wanted to top up the pond I 'd been cleaning out . |
| 3 | ‘ Yup , ’ she 'd said , shifting down to fourth as a car she 'd been waiting to pass pulled back into the slow lane . |
| 4 | No one was jumping for joy because they 'd finally got the piece they 'd been searching for for years . |
| 5 | He bent to pick up the card he 'd been carrying then scowled at the deserted foyer . |
| 6 | Not only had I gained the technical degree I 'd been chasing , but I 'd finally achieved a position in a business when I could use that expertise to its full potential . |
| 7 | The vasectomy dated from 1980 , when a girl I 'd been sleeping with told me she was embarazada . |
| 8 | I said I could see Victor was right , I had over-complicated the plot ; I should not have introduced the letters , which were paraphrases of a correspondence I 'd been reading on my journey to London . |
| 9 | Bernice quickly unrolled the bundle she 'd been carrying beneath her arm and thrust Ace 's blood-soaked jacket into the Doctor 's hands . |
| 10 | Rain said : ‘ If Sabine Jourdain planned to reveal how much of Durance 's work she 'd been doing for him , a lot of people would have preferred she did n't . ’ |
| 11 | The kind of betrayal she 'd been believing him guilty of was mean , petty-minded , and he was none of those things . |
| 12 | It would be so easy to give up the battle she 'd been waging against him , simply to lay down her arms and give herself up to the ecstasy of possession . |
| 13 | I talked to the boy who 'd been trying to help this Frome — trying to get him to vomit it up , and so on . |
| 14 | I accompanied them into the street where they rejoined the boy who 'd been standing look-out . |
| 15 | this boy who 'd been doing it a few years . |
| 16 | ‘ Have what done ? ’ asked the child who 'd been listening . |
| 17 | The voice was not what I 'd have expected from a girl who 'd been playing house with a mug like Mahoney . |
| 18 | On landing there was none of the Spanish bureaucracy we 'd been expecting — you just need your passport number for the fuel bill . |
| 19 | Chris described to her in painstaking detail the story of the cartoon they 'd been watching . |
| 20 | His brow cleared after the terrific mental exercise he 'd been putting in . |
| 21 | Ace asked in a tone that betrayed the worry she 'd been trying to hide . |
| 22 | The following morning you washed the shirt you 'd been wearing , the pullover and the trousers . |
| 23 | Picking up the internal telephone , she buzzed Stephanie , abruptly coming to a decision she 'd been wrestling with for a couple of days , one she considered to be eminently sensible and practical … |
| 24 | Pulling a little face , she carefully folded the tea-towel she 'd been using and laid it on the work surface . |
| 25 | The moment I 'd been waiting for so long had arrived . |
| 26 | The moment she 'd been waiting for . |
| 27 | I 'm glad you do n't try to be what you are n't , ’ he said gravely , beckoning the waiter who 'd been leaning wearily against the door-jamb . |
| 28 | Despite the lecture she 'd been reading herself , excitement had put colour in her cheeks and made her clear golden-brown eyes sparkle . |
| 29 | Claudia did n't know Garry , or even his surname ; Dana had always had men in her life , but she had n't seemed serious about any of them , and so far Claudia had hoped in vain that she would find someone to love and to provide the anchor she 'd been missing so badly since their mother had died . |
| 30 | One day in the shop she 'd been waiting for Malcolm 's girlfriend and partner , Vivienne Westwood — they 'd been planning to go somewhere but Vivienne had n't turned up , she 'd phoned to tell this American girl that . |