Example sentences of "'d been [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been using most of it anyway , like . |
| 2 | She 'd been using these for years , ever since a practical demonstration by an art-school technician fired her to experiment with felting techniques . |
| 3 | ‘ You do n't know who he is , but last night in the pub you asked Mr Hatton if he 'd been seeing much of McCloy lately . |
| 4 | It was an immediate transformation of my personal and social outlook and it started in me a new sort of excitement — it was as though you 'd been shot full of adrenalin . |
| 5 | He could remember the first time that he 'd stepped outside into country darkness and closed the door behind him ; it was as if he 'd been struck blind with the click of the latch , and he 'd begun to panic at his inability even to tell which way was up . |
| 6 | ‘ He 'd been wearing this over the shirt he wore for the sitting , ’ Edwards said , ‘ and at the end of the last sitting just as he was leaving , as an afterthought , he said , ‘ Oh you better have this ’ and took it off and gave it to me , like the end of a football match . ’ |
| 7 | It was as though she 'd been let loose from shackles she had n't even known she 'd been wearing . |
| 8 | And then little did he know when he used to leave them in the house , in the back yard , that we 'd been pinching some of them . |
| 9 | We 'd been playing safe for our own survival , and scores of heterosexuals went unchallenged in their continued acts of heterosexism . |
| 10 | She 'd been investigating one of her peculiar groups and she said there was about to be a break-through . |
| 11 | She felt great , better rested than she 'd felt for weeks now , the little aches of fatigue she 'd been growing used to now all miraculously ironed out . |
| 12 | He 'd been working one of the axle springs free on an old Cortina when the jack had given way . |
| 13 | I was in Italy , it was early morning , and I 'd been lying awake for about three hours . |
| 14 | They 'd been sitting still for too long . |
| 15 | 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 … |
| 16 | At more or less the middle of the night , every night , for a week , I 'd been woken first by one child crying , then by two , then by three . |
| 17 | And they 'd been commissioned both of them . |
| 18 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |