Example sentences of "'d [been] [verb] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been using these for years , ever since a practical demonstration by an art-school technician fired her to experiment with felting techniques . |
| 2 | We 'd been playing safe for our own survival , and scores of heterosexuals went unchallenged in their continued acts of heterosexism . |
| 3 | I was in Italy , it was early morning , and I 'd been lying awake for about three hours . |
| 4 | They 'd been sitting still for too long . |
| 5 | She 'd been sitting motionless for over an hour , conducting an inner battle over the need to alert the board of Chester 's about Guy 's perfidy , with the stubborn hope that somehow she might be wrong keeping her glued to the spot , torn with indecision … |
| 6 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |