Example sentences of "'d be [v-ing] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 2 | I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping . |
| 3 | So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get . |
| 4 | They 'd been sharing a cell for the last two years . |
| 5 | Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone . |
| 6 | She thought she knew what might have been on his mind , because he 'd been writing a letter in the Lounge . |
| 7 | ‘ He 'd been drinking a lot . |
| 8 | My local bank manager said that means she 'd been renting a deposit box . |
| 9 | ‘ If she 'd been wearing a helmet , she might have lived , ’ says Officer Carmine Menchel , who visited the scene later . |
| 10 | He felt that if he 'd been wearing a gun , this man would have known . |
| 11 | as if she 'd been wearing a coat of many many colours , and , beached on the desert island shore of Pity Me , had shredded the damn shrunken thing . |
| 12 | Now you can work out for yourselves that if you 'd been betting a pound on each of those horses you 'd have finished up substantially down . |
| 13 | He 'd been making a living , that was all , and now he was going to swing for it because the fucking book would n't fucking burn ! |
| 14 | I 'd been researching an article for an historical magazine . |
| 15 | ‘ The man , who was known to the police , was one of the knockers they 'd been keeping an eye on . |
| 16 | ‘ Mum says he should have looked first , Dad says if she 'd been keeping an eye on him he would have been fine . |
| 17 | Ron said that he 'd been preparing an obituary of Lord Mountbatten for some time , that Mountbatten had somehow got wind of it and had approached the BBC with a view to taking part . |
| 18 | And there was something about him , an aura of confidence and power , as he stood there facing her across the bonnet of the Mini that told her that even if she 'd been driving a tank there was no way in the world he would have let her go past . |
| 19 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 20 | She 'd been having a nightmare . |
| 21 | I 'd been having a bit of a go about putting your hand up but every time he put his hand up I 'm bending over somebody or I 'm in a different part of the room . |
| 22 | It looked as if they 'd been having a party and had just taken off in the middle of it . |
| 23 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 24 | There were rumours they 'd been having an affair while he was actually teaching her , when she would have been fifteen ; there were rumours the girl was pregnant . |
| 25 | He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ? |
| 26 | The man who killed officer worker Anna McGurk has told a jury he 'd been having an affair with her before her death . |
| 27 | Dawson was aware that she 'd been combating a bout of ill-temper since he 'd arrived . |
| 28 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 29 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 30 | Maybe she 'd been doing a lot of thinking . |