Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd been [verb] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 2 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 3 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
| 4 | I 'd been excited about Brownies for so long that I 'd been warned about wishing my life away nearly a hundred times by the week of my first Pack meeting . |
| 5 | I did n't know what to say , but I 'd been reading about mating in a book only a few days before , so I kept a perfectly straight face and replied . |
| 6 | I 'd been told about the Afon Por-Gilli but never got around to finding and paddling it so when I found that I had the first Wednesday of the month off we set off westbound across the border . |
| 7 | But what should I do now that I 'd been told about Belinda 's feelings ? |
| 8 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 9 | I said so , and you fobbed me off with the excuse that you 'd been talking about Lilian 's twin . |
| 10 | It was all so quick and effortless that she wondered whether she 'd been mistaken about his intentions . |
| 11 | She 'd been thinking about becoming a nun but she could n't be with a baby . |
| 12 | She 'd been thinking about something , or somebody , else . |
| 13 | Cos Ange said she 'd , she 'd been chatting about Jenny to her . |
| 14 | She 'd been reading about how Egyptians believed cats guided your dreams , and dreamed that she was roaming around their flat from a cat 's point of view . |
| 15 | It was something she 'd been wondering about . |
| 16 | She pulled herself together with an effort , trying to remember what she 'd been told about wine-tasting , holding the glass carefully by the stem , and sniffing delicately . |
| 17 | After all , she now knew beyond reasonable doubt who her father had been , and she 'd warmed to the little she 'd been told about him . |
| 18 | And I read that book and erm Marie , erm said said that they 've got new ones so that so that , excuse me , she 'd been talking about I 'd just made myself a pie I could n't eat any of it ! |
| 19 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 20 | is the knowledge that if er , we 'd been talking about them two hundred and fifty years ago we 'd be put on trial and probably burnt to death . |
| 21 | ‘ We 'd been talking about getting married for quite a while , ’ said Nicky . |
| 22 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 23 | So they 'd been talking about it already . |
| 24 | I said to I said cos he 'd they 'd been talking about me . |
| 25 | Suddenly the penny dropped , and Meredith knew why he 'd been prowling about the airport like an angry lion . |
| 26 | Seddon knew more about the Ingard-Stavanger case than I did , because , being an ex-chief of the Fraud Squad , he 'd been consulted about it before it came to us , and had , in fact , directed the preliminary police inquiries . |
| 27 | He 'd been questioned about his age in pubs several times . |
| 28 | And to think he 'd been agonizing about what line to take on Bartocci 's conspiracy theory ! |
| 29 | The whole idea that he 'd been thinking about since Christmas seemed pointless all of a sudden . |
| 30 | She 'd had a fever since last night , and all day at school he 'd been thinking about her . |