Example sentences of "'d been [prep] [art] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Marquess of Blandford is back in prison tonight , charged with assualting two police officers who were trying to arrest him after he 'd been on the run for four days . |
| 2 | He 'd been on the roads for days and they still retained their winter mire , despite the advent of finer spring weather . |
| 3 | She 'd been on the floor for nearly every dance , and was having a whale of a time . |
| 4 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
| 5 | Some days after I 'd been to the supermarket for the week 's shopping I 'd be smashed , there 'd be nothing left . |
| 6 | He 'd been in the house for nearly six weeks now and although he had not yet been called upon to take part in a Vibrancy performance , he had all the time in the world to practise . |
| 7 | She 'd been in the library for close to four hours now . |
| 8 | She 'd been in the States for nine months now , and was getting to feel like a native . |
| 9 | I 'd been in the city for too long , too many late nights staring at an empty page : the Muse and I had become jaded with each other . |
| 10 | They 'd been in the cafe for over thirty minutes now , with only the sound of a fruit machine and the loud chattering of a group of youngsters in their late teens for company . |
| 11 | I 'd been after a pair for ages . |