Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] 'd been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | What we decided to do , because I thought that 's what you 'd been pressing for , was to show that as the equivalent affect of , okay , you think you 're making these profits but you 're actually enjoying services that you 're not paying for . |
| 32 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |
| 33 | ‘ But they loved what we 'd been doing . |
| 34 | ‘ What would she say if she knew what we 'd been doing tonight ? ’ |
| 35 | I tried to play back what we 'd been saying . |
| 36 | The aroma that exuded from the chemist shop in those days like er Depends what they 'd been using you see ? |
| 37 | Some could n't say what they 'd been wearing themselves , but their female colleagues usually gave us some idea . ’ |
| 38 | That 's what they 'd been fighting for for twenty years . |
| 39 | But then they 'd still presumably report back to the main group about what they 'd been doing . |
| 40 | They , they , what they 'd been doing was shooting them over and they 'd just had n't been exploded , they said dud shell or something . |
| 41 | She thought the girls would regard anyone who wanted to relive her childhood as wringingly wet , but they did n't openly sneer — just went back to whatever they 'd been doing while Constance and Camille walked away to appreciate the fine lines and charming dispositions of twenty greyhounds . |
| 42 | He nodded , as if this was what he 'd been expecting . |
| 43 | The Raubvogel had just entered the short tunnel that led out of the cavern , when Katze finally found what he 'd been looking for . |
| 44 | It was in the second of the rooms behind a damp stack of spare mattresses that he found what he 'd been hoping for . |
| 45 | Now he 'd lost track of what he 'd been thinking of completely . |
| 46 | What he 'd been leading up to all week ? |
| 47 | And I understood at once the implications of what he 'd been saying . |
| 48 | She believed in most of what he 'd been saying ; she had no idea of how much he believed himself |
| 49 | As to what he 'd been doing , there had been a couple of incidents down by the river , which on top of the morning 's ordeal , had about finished him . |
| 50 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |
| 51 | By comparison , what he 'd been doing in the cafeteria block was mere journeyman stuff . |
| 52 | " To destroy the evidence of what he 'd been doing , or the result of his analysis , or the time he 'd spent on it . |
| 53 | I went to have a look at what he 'd been doing . |
| 54 | But he went on refusing to say anything at all about what he 'd been doing in Paris . |
| 55 | While Zen waited for his driver to arrive , his hosts tried politely to find out who he was and what he 'd been doing , but he remained deliberately vague . |
| 56 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 57 | Did he say what he 'd been doing with himself ? |
| 58 | At last she knew what he 'd been keeping from her . |
| 59 | She was on holiday after all , and it certainly seemed as though that was what he 'd been indulging in while waiting for his ladyfriend to return . |
| 60 | But he had finished whatever he 'd been doing , so Juliet just tidied the bed and put a few things away . |