Example sentences of "'d been [v-ing] [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 ‘ 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 . ’
5 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 .
6 We 'd been playing safe for our own survival , and scores of heterosexuals went unchallenged in their continued acts of heterosexism .
7 She 'd been investigating one of her peculiar groups and she said there was about to be a break-through .
8 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 .
9 He 'd been working one of the axle springs free on an old Cortina when the jack had given way .
10 I was in Italy , it was early morning , and I 'd been lying awake for about three hours .
11 They 'd been sitting still for too long .
12 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 …
13 I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July .
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