Example sentences of "'d been [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
| 2 | Ven queried , as well he might , she realised , for she 'd been chatting to him like a veritable magpie all evening with not so much as a hint of shyness . |
| 3 | Isabel 's personal integrity had been there in her clear gaze all the time , if he 'd been thinking with his head instead of with his emotions . |
| 4 | ‘ And I 'd been thinking of you only yesterday . |
| 5 | I 'd been thinking of you know things that that I had that can go . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd been thinking of it , ’ he said . |
| 7 | She 'd been thinking about something , or somebody , else . |
| 8 | She 'd had a fever since last night , and all day at school he 'd been thinking about her . |
| 9 | He 'd been thinking about her , but he did n't want it to show . |
| 10 | Look , ’ and she opened her handbag and reached inside , ‘ this was one I 'd been saving for him — ’ Her voice cracked and she began to cry . |
| 11 | She 'd been listening to him with dawning realisation , an icy sensation freezing her body inch by inch . |
| 12 | Anyway , I 'd been staying with them in darkest Kensington , at Mr Gibbon 's very grand , three-storeyed town-house in Ascot Square , just off Addison Road , and working at a branch of Mondo-Food on Victoria Street ( they were trying a new line in Haggisburgers at the time and the manager thought my accent would help shift them . |
| 13 | She 'd been looking into it for Ken anyway — as I told you . |
| 14 | He was making her act like a gauche schoolgirl — Aurora Blake , who could hold thousands spellbound with the power of her voice , who could mix happily with kings and commoners — stammering apologetically because a man who had wandered unwanted and uninvited into her garden knew she 'd been looking at him ! |
| 15 | She sat back , munching , face red but eyes twinkling , and with those eyes indicated the two women who 'd been looking at us ; then she raised one finger and pointed first at me , then at her . |
| 16 | So he 'd been looking for her . |
| 17 | This might sound , to Albert , as if she 'd been looking for him . |
| 18 | She 'd been looking after her father , who 'd become ill , probably because of the fumes . |
| 19 | He 'd been fiddling with his desk , had n't he ? |
| 20 | The Emissary 's Illusochamber had also been free of bugging devices as I 'd found when I 'd been fiddling with my headband , activating a mini-ceptor in one of the jewels . |
| 21 | ‘ And do you deny that for the two years prior to his death you 'd been living with him in his flat in London ? ’ |
| 22 | She 'd been living with him in Bristol and they planned to marry . |
| 23 | We 'd been living in his London flat , and so far our frantic house-hunt had been futile — too big , too small , too near the road , too far from London , but mostly too expensive . |
| 24 | Some items I 'd been holding for him . |
| 25 | He 'd been dozing in his sitting room when the noise from upstairs woke him . |
| 26 | But after that Pete had sworn that he 'd touch nothing stronger than tapwater for the rest of the evening , and so far he 'd been sticking to it . |
| 27 | It would be so easy to give up the battle she 'd been waging against him , simply to lay down her arms and give herself up to the ecstasy of possession . |
| 28 | Ever since he 'd given her that power of attorney she 'd been getting above herself . |
| 29 | I 'd been loading for him , loading the t coal into tubs and tramming them . |
| 30 | Quick-thinking James , 20 , switched off the gas and collected a damp cloth , while Darren used the fire-fighting techniques he 'd been learning on his weekend course in Surrey to tackle the blaze . |