Example sentences of "that [pers pn] 'd been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Capron said it had come to his attention that I 'd been meeting you and that it had to stop . ’ |
| 2 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Afterwards , I crawled backstage to visit Michael Crawford , forgetting that I 'd been wearing Clinique 's face-bronzer for that glowing , outdoor , tanned look we all know and simulate . |
| 5 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
| 6 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 7 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 8 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 9 | There crawled into my mind one nasty little question that I 'd been fighting off till now . |
| 10 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 11 | The realization that I 'd been hankering all along to come here , and be part of it . ’ |
| 12 | I had , I had a letter the other day saying that I 'd been paying thirty nine pounds , fifty a week to live on , but I 've been entitled to fifty five pound something for low income support so are they gon na backdate all that and then get their |
| 13 | It 's you know and my pride was getting a little bit dented that I 'd been selling market for years suddenly I was n't doing this . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mind you in between that I 'd been working on the fa farm farm . |
| 16 | She told me when we were staying there that she 'd been trying to conceive ever since her wedding . ’ |
| 17 | I felt that her character had been revealed and , what was more , that she 'd been using me . |
| 18 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 19 | How dared he believe that she 'd been taking money from Travis to pay her way ? |
| 20 | It was her nail scissors that she 'd been searching for days , lost under the hearthrug and pressing into her hip ; and the cry was also her virginity , small and bewildered and gone . |
| 21 | She was in fact very thin but had this huge wire frame around her ’ It turned out that she 'd been coming in a couple of times a week , stealing hundreds of pounds worth of clothes , hanging them on her frame then walking out . |
| 22 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 23 | The summer school job that she 'd been relying on had been cancelled at the very last minute and other temporary jobs were a bit thin on the ground . |
| 24 | Miss Malabedeely had been kneeling by a chair , praying , and Kate had thought immediately that she 'd been asking God to stop Miss Shaw and Miss Rist being so unpleasant to her . |
| 25 | She had n't realized until she was bumping along the road away from the dock that she 'd been shaking like an aspen leaf . |
| 26 | The handkerchief that she 'd been twisting and untwisting at our first interview came out again , this time to her eyes . |
| 27 | Dawson was aware that she 'd been combating a bout of ill-temper since he 'd arrived . |
| 28 | In all the months that she 'd been going out with Adrian , he 'd never once asked to talk to her like that , in that special way , during school time . |
| 29 | I said so , and you fobbed me off with the excuse that you 'd been talking about Lilian 's twin . |
| 30 | I realized then that we 'd been barking up the wrong tree . ’ |