Example sentences of "'d [been] [verb] there for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been sent there for contempt of court by Essex magistrates when she refused to answer questions about her personal finances in a poll tax case . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She 'd been summoned there for refusing to pay a poll tax surcharge of £14.52 . |
| 4 | He 'd been waiting there for me , I concluded . |
| 5 | And yes , he 'd been working there for several days . |
| 6 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 7 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 8 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |