Example sentences of "'d been [verb] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been buying some sweets at a local newsagent minutes before the accident . |
| 2 | The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so . |
| 3 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 4 | He had big banks of lights and speakers on either side of his console with some lower-level relays here in the ballroom ; he 'd been running some smoke and dry ice earlier , and some of it still hung in the air and gave the lighted area beyond the doorways the effect of some offworld film set . |
| 5 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 6 | Obviously he 'd been doing some kind of a finance deal ; setting up a takeover ; and he 'd lifted some off the top for himself . ’ |
| 7 | But I bumped into Chris who 'd been doing some session work with Steve ( Buzzcocks ) Diggle , who was looking for a guitar player to do a few gigs , and Chris kind of trapped me into that . |
| 8 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |