Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd been [v-ing] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel that though I 'd been dawdling it would n't have been so bad . |
| 2 | They wanted their own announcer , a local girl , not one from London , and as I 'd been presenting it on radio since I was 13 , they asked me to try my hand on television . |
| 3 | I gave him the booklet and I told him I 'd been doing it … oh , yes , and he 'd put it in as one of his objectives for this year . |
| 4 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 5 | But er , I was giving this er I 'd been giving it a stroke , and er it 's sort of dying to be fussed , but I do n't think they give it any attention across there . |
| 6 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 7 | You 'd been planning it for about |
| 8 | She 'd been wearing it to the office that morning and put on an overall for the art class in the afternoon . |
| 9 | OK , so perhaps she 'd been pushing it a little ! |
| 10 | You 'd think she 'd been doing it all her life . |
| 11 | Her mother identified it as a wayfaring tree and she 'd been cutting it back during the summer and it did n't seem to mind but she 'd be very grateful for any information about the wayfaring tree which presumably she 'd like to keep and continue to grow in her garden . |
| 12 | She 'd been avoiding it for so long , but she had no choice about facing it now . |
| 13 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 14 | Well , what we did was we what we did was we erm found the alarm system to try and calculate some reasonable output rates erm but what we found was the output rates seemed incredibly low using based on the completion that they have got So what we was we erm took the nine week 's work that they 'd done and erm plus they 'd obviously based our output rates on that erm just for a little example , using the allowances we have n't got whereas actually we 'd been calculating it on what they had n't worked so , that was basically what we So moving on to the actual short-term programme |
| 15 | Eventually it was he who told her mother when she was about eight months pregnant : " We 'd been planning it for ages to tell them but we had n't had the nerve to get round to it . |
| 16 | They 'd been feeding it down at the where they give the horses |
| 17 | They 'd been keeping it under lights , and it seemed to be growing quite happily with one end in a pot of special plant water . |
| 18 | They 'd been planning it , moving , for a year . |
| 19 | ‘ He 'd been reading it . |
| 20 | And the lock did n't turn as he 'd been expecting it to — |
| 21 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 22 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 23 | All night long he 'd been saying it . |
| 24 | He 'd been practising it while I 'd been away . |
| 25 | He 'd been doing it all evening . |
| 26 | From their position on the block , he 'd been steadying it with his left hand while drawing out a knife with his right . ’ |