Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd [be] [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , I probably dreamt it because I 'd been hearing all their dreams and thinking about them . |
| 2 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 3 | I 'd been using most of it anyway , like . |
| 4 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 5 | I 'd been leading such a rackety life — Edouard , you ca n't imagine . |
| 6 | The realization that I 'd been hankering all along to come here , and be part of it . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 8 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd been planning that very thing . ’ |
| 11 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 12 | How would you feel if you 'd been paying this money for ten years and then you lived , you lived after than , and you got nothing for it basically . |
| 13 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 14 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 15 | She 'd been dreading this . |
| 16 | She 'd been buying some sweets at a local newsagent minutes before the accident . |
| 17 | She 'd worn slacks all through rehearsals and the only other times he 'd seen her she 'd been wearing that dreary suit . |
| 18 | She 'd been using these for years , ever since a practical demonstration by an art-school technician fired her to experiment with felting techniques . |
| 19 | There must be hundreds of people named McMahon — Be ironic , though , would n't it , if she 'd been staying all this time in the house of the woman she was looking for ? |
| 20 | I suspect she 'd been following that fool of a carrier . ’ |
| 21 | She 'd been waiting all her life for this man , this moment . |
| 22 | As she flicked over memories of the day — embracing in the cold silken water , under that mysterious layer of white mist which cut off the sky above yet gave clear vision to the other side , a quarter of a mile away — the sense of wicked escape , as they laughed together in the empty lunch-time pub … she decided that she would tell her mother she 'd been working both Sundays . |
| 23 | In fact the night he died , the Saturday , we 'd been fishing all day , just the two of us . |
| 24 | ‘ We 'd been seeing each other for a year when he suggested we should move in together . |
| 25 | We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous . |
| 26 | ‘ We 'd been walking all day , brushing through great webs of giant spiders , and at one stage I looked back at Adrian Arbin , who I was with , and it was like a horror film — his face was running with blood , blood running into his eyes , down his neck , staining his shirt . |
| 27 | It was pretty fucking annoying even if it was n't ; I really wanted to get the bastard because we 'd been having this stupid argument before we 'd started about how greed really was good and how William had been so disappointed at how poorly the argument was put across by the Gekko character in Wall Street . |
| 28 | And then little did he know when he used to leave them in the house , in the back yard , that we 'd been pinching some of them . |
| 29 | So after they 'd been using this stuff with no windows open or anything , one of the workmen began to feel a little bit groggy so he said to his mate and open the back door Charlie , will you , I 'm feeling a bit groggy . |
| 30 | Erm and people had been paying insurance i it changed then cos some of the farmers could go on their pension they 'd been paying this new scheme you see . |