Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd been [v-ing] 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 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I said so , and you fobbed me off with the excuse that you 'd been talking about Lilian 's twin . |
| 7 | She 'd been thinking about becoming a nun but she could n't be with a baby . |
| 8 | She 'd been thinking about something , or somebody , else . |
| 9 | Cos Ange said she 'd , she 'd been chatting about Jenny to her . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was something she 'd been wondering about . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ We 'd been talking about getting married for quite a while , ’ said Nicky . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | So they 'd been talking about it already . |
| 18 | I said to I said cos he 'd they 'd been talking about me . |
| 19 | Suddenly the penny dropped , and Meredith knew why he 'd been prowling about the airport like an angry lion . |
| 20 | And to think he 'd been agonizing about what line to take on Bartocci 's conspiracy theory ! |
| 21 | The whole idea that he 'd been thinking about since Christmas seemed pointless all of a sudden . |
| 22 | She 'd had a fever since last night , and all day at school he 'd been thinking about her . |
| 23 | He 'd been thinking about her , but he did n't want it to show . |
| 24 | ‘ No , he 'd been talking about it . |
| 25 | Now was obviously not the time to confront Feargal and ask what the devil he 'd been talking about . |