Example sentences of "'d [been] [verb] [pers pn] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 2 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |
| 5 | Well in that case and they 'd been stopping them for us you see and er excuse me stopping them for us and whoever decided to speak to them has had his few words and that 's it carry on . |
| 6 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 7 | She deserved it , she 'd been tormenting me for weeks , calling me Comic Stripper because I told better jokes than she did . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You 'd been planning it for about |
| 10 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 11 | She 'd been avoiding it for so long , but she had no choice about facing it now . |
| 12 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |