Example sentences of "'d [been] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |
| 2 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
| 3 | I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well but as Father 's Day approached , Joe made it clear that I could n't hope to be any more than just second best |
| 4 | ‘ And I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well together . ’ |
| 5 | I was afraid they 'd been carrying on . ’ |
| 6 | She 'd been carrying on outside all morning and |
| 7 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 8 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 9 | Motions , right , black and smelly , okay , and according to how the different colour of the motion be there , or the different colour of the grains were there would give an indication of how long this 'd been going on or how far up the gut it was , and the damage was okay ? |
| 10 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
| 11 | ‘ He did n't like to admit he 'd got hooked — not after the way he 'd been going on . |
| 12 | She 'd been letting on that she lived in one of those posh houses . |
| 13 | My mother had a fit when I went home and my aunt said I 'd been taken on . |
| 14 | There was one abominable story of a young man to whom this happened , a freelance journalist , who 'd been taken on by one of the agencies on a temporary trial which had n't worked out . |
| 15 | She 'd been taken on by Harman almost as — well yes , his protégé really . |
| 16 | Once she could not have imagined a greater disaster — all the garments she 'd been working on , with such dedication , day and night , for weeks on end now , had totally vanished , disappeared . |
| 17 | He looked up from the papers he 'd been working on and said blandly , ‘ Ah , Luce … |
| 18 | ‘ The one against Ruddock was more natural , more instinctive , something I 'd been working on . |
| 19 | All the time she 'd been wittering on about Jennifer and her illness , he had kept this to himself , suffering in silence . |
| 20 | We 'd been turning on and off roads all along , dodging checkpoints I guessed . |