Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd been [v-ing] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Emissary 's Illusochamber had also been free of bugging devices as I 'd found when I 'd been fiddling with my headband , activating a mini-ceptor in one of the jewels . |
| 2 | Like a fool I told her about the man I 'd been living with . |
| 3 | Anyway , I 'd been staying with them in darkest Kensington , at Mr Gibbon 's very grand , three-storeyed town-house in Ascot Square , just off Addison Road , and working at a branch of Mondo-Food on Victoria Street ( they were trying a new line in Haggisburgers at the time and the manager thought my accent would help shift them . |
| 4 | He is very strict , and would dismiss me if he found out I 'd been interfering with his books . |
| 5 | The vasectomy dated from 1980 , when a girl I 'd been sleeping with told me she was embarazada . |
| 6 | Some of the theories would have made Balzac blush , but they finally decided I 'd been sleeping with Laura , her husband had beaten me up in a dark alley , and now I was on my way to kill him . |
| 7 | And the players I 'd been working with previously went along with me , from using my modified equipment to using my custom-built equipment . |
| 8 | ‘ I fancied a change of scene from London where I 'd been working with the Bank of England in-house catering team ’ she said . |
| 9 | ‘ And do you deny that for the two years prior to his death you 'd been living with him in his flat in London ? ’ |
| 10 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 11 | She 'd been drinking with friends . |
| 12 | She 'd been living with one of his men , a guy who knew a lot about his affairs , and Connie could n't help knowing plenty of things that Bonanza would not want advertised on the radio . ’ |
| 13 | She 'd been living with him in Bristol and they planned to marry . |
| 14 | Picking up the internal telephone , she buzzed Stephanie , abruptly coming to a decision she 'd been wrestling with for a couple of days , one she considered to be eminently sensible and practical … |
| 15 | He 's going to be ages , thought Juliet desperately , suddenly realising she 'd been standing with her hands clenched together , and her eyes screwed tightly as if to hear better . |
| 16 | It was an appreciative whistle and one that Rachel recognised , for since she 'd been working with five thousand men she had become well used to whistles of that nature . |
| 17 | She 'd felt as if she 'd been fighting with Guy Sterne all her life ! |
| 18 | She 'd been grappling with the oddest emotional reaction , one she 'd never come across before and could n't fathom at all , clutching the jacket round her so tightly that her knuckles were white . |
| 19 | ‘ We 'd been sitting with him in hospital keeping his mind occupied , but when our visiting times changed and he was alone he would lie there and think . |
| 20 | ‘ It appears there 'd been a big row and a parting of the ways before my agent tracked them down , but my premise was right : they 'd been staying with one of Svend 's college friends at his parents ’ apartment on the outskirts of the city . |
| 21 | He 'd been sparing with words : it hurt to talk . |
| 22 | He 'd been fiddling with his desk , had n't he ? |
| 23 | ( This was a circumstance paralleled at his own funeral , when the friends and relations of the woman he 'd been living with for part of the week since the early 1960s stole the show from us , the pathetic huddle of the family of his middle years . ) |
| 24 | Maybe she 'd always had someone to look after her ; he 'd been living with darned socks and the stitch-in-time philosophy all his life , first his mother and then Margaret , who sorted her stockings out into ones she could wear to the office and ones which were only good for gardening . |
| 25 | And if you read the scriptures , you 'll discover those where er he , you know er he was with Paul on one occasion , and er he 'd been eating with Gentiles and er then some Jews came up who believed that eating with er non-Jews even though they were followers of Jesus was wrong . |
| 26 | Isabel 's personal integrity had been there in her clear gaze all the time , if he 'd been thinking with his head instead of with his emotions . |
| 27 | The first , that with so much burnt umber on his hands he looked as though he 'd been playing with his own shit . |
| 28 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 29 | Did he say what he 'd been doing with himself ? |
| 30 | He 'd been corresponding with a local cricket scribe for five years before the trip and had recruited two current Test cricketers in Roy Minnett and Gerry Hazlitt , the dashing Dockers , Cyril and Philip , and an adonis figure in Norman Ebbsworth . |