Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd been [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then I thought maybe I 'd been expecting too much . |
| 2 | ‘ The helicopter I 'd been watching suddenly veered to port and its rotor blades did n't look the same . |
| 3 | I 'd been jumping up and down like an eejit for a couple of minutes before the bloke next to me tapped me politely on the shoulder to point out the linesman and his flag . |
| 4 | I 'd been mucking around and none of my mates like that . |
| 5 | I 'd been muttering unhappily to a couple of friends about how hopelessly disorganized a particular campaign I 'd got involved with seemed to be when a strange man next to us started a similar but louder tirade about how useless Switchboard was , how everyone knew they were ripping off money from their fund raising and what a lousy job they did in his ( extremely small and third-hand ) experience . |
| 6 | For a moment I felt better , then my face chanced to come alongside the face of a three-foot-high king in a crown — I 'd been pushing down hard on the bishop 's corpse memory , now he reared up again … |
| 7 | I 'd been looking forward to telling Charlie how depressed and lonely I 'd been since we moved to London . |
| 8 | I 'd been looking forward to seeing you both , and I had wanted to discuss that Unesco thing with you . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd been looking down all the time we were talking , but he made me look up then , and our eyes met and I know something passed between us . |
| 10 | ‘ It was just that a couple of times I 'd been looking out , or I 'd just glance up as I passed , and , well , I 'd seen her there . |
| 11 | ‘ And because I 'd been speaking slowly , my lip patterns were distorted . |
| 12 | I 'd been living away and when I first come back into the area a few of me friends was into it . |
| 13 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 14 | I 'd been getting away with it for ages . |
| 15 | I had n't had a lot of luck finding the man I wanted , but at least I 'd been getting up to date on my social exercises , like who was drinking with who , and in what bars . |
| 16 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
| 17 | ‘ Everyone would think I 'd been messing around ! |
| 18 | You 're right , are n't you Yes , once he got going , I knew why I 'd been holding back . |
| 19 | Ever since we 'd moved to Cornwall I 'd been reading more and more about birds of prey , and by this time I was pretty sure that falconry was the ideal career for me . |
| 20 | I wanted to top up the pond I 'd been cleaning out . |
| 21 | I did n't have a big name in the business as I 'd been concentrating just on working , so I was n't a star and could n't force through any changes . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd been asking why she 'd taken a clerical job when she 'd had an art training and she said it was all she could get at first but after a while she 'd managed to wangle this daytime class . ’ |
| 23 | I 'd been wondering when he 'd pick up cards in this game . |
| 24 | There crawled into my mind one nasty little question that I 'd been fighting off till now . |
| 25 | I got up , walked backwards towards the nearest dune , threw the can way high over the top of it , then came back , lay down where I 'd been sitting earlier , and closed my eyes . |
| 26 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 27 | I felt as if I 'd been sitting there half the night . |
| 28 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 29 | ‘ The one against Ruddock was more natural , more instinctive , something I 'd been working on . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd been working solidly for eighteen months , ’ she pointed out . |