Example sentences of "'d [been] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 2 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 3 | ‘ It appears there 'd been a big row and a parting of the ways before my agent tracked them down , but my premise was right : they 'd been staying with one of Svend 's college friends at his parents ’ apartment on the outskirts of the city . |
| 4 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 5 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 6 | I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government . |
| 7 | She 'd been living with one of his men , a guy who knew a lot about his affairs , and Connie could n't help knowing plenty of things that Bonanza would not want advertised on the radio . ’ |
| 8 | Maybe she 'd always had someone to look after her ; he 'd been living with darned socks and the stitch-in-time philosophy all his life , first his mother and then Margaret , who sorted her stockings out into ones she could wear to the office and ones which were only good for gardening . |
| 9 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 10 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 11 | We 'd been bickering since New Year and she 'd flounced out of my city flat in early May , darkly muttering , Nevermore ! |
| 12 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 13 | They 'd been queuing since 5 a.m. in the morning and as the wait continued , so did the length of the queue . |
| 14 | He was n't wearing the suit he 'd been wearing in Furnival Gardens . |
| 15 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 16 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 17 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 18 | Mr Probyn is being questioned about the death of his wife , Tanya , who was 28 , and who 'd been missing for six days before her body was found in her car in the River Severn . |
| 19 | She 'd been missing for 24 hours , her disappearance reported by her boyfriend , himself arrested and questioned by police , but then released . |
| 20 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 21 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 22 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 23 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 24 | I 'd been falling since nineteen |
| 25 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 26 | I 'd been indulging in good heart exercise while sitting still . |
| 27 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 28 | It was an appreciative whistle and one that Rachel recognised , for since she 'd been working with five thousand men she had become well used to whistles of that nature . |
| 29 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |