Example sentences of "'d [be] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't said he was going away and renting his house , which was odd because they 'd been chatting in the village not two days before he 'd disappeared and Leo taken up residence . |
| 2 | Even when she 'd been helping in the kitchen she 'd found her eyes straying , as if magnetised , in his direction . |
| 3 | After all , he 'd been ferreting in the records for a good while . ’ |
| 4 | Since I 'd been living in the flat , Shadwell had been coming to see Eva at least once a week , during the day , when Dad was at the office . |
| 5 | I 'd been living in the country with my wife when she died unexpectedly . |
| 6 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 7 | I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub . |
| 8 | She 'd been waitressing in the dining-room for breakfast and lunch . |
| 9 | Perhaps she 'd heard his panting , and the promises he 'd been making in the dark . |
| 10 | Dot knew from their voices that those two young men who 'd been working in the fields must be prisoners . |
| 11 | He 'd been working in the welded body section at the time . |
| 12 | He 'd been sitting in the car so long , it was hard for him to run . |
| 13 | Her face and neck felt as if she 'd been sitting in the heat of an oven . |
| 14 | Well okay , that was a time she 'd been camping in the Lake District , Mrs did . |
| 15 | By comparison , what he 'd been doing in the cafeteria block was mere journeyman stuff . |