Example sentences of "'d [been] [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been slashing car tyres when approached him with a hammer . |
| 2 | Up till then I 'd been using Rickenbackers , and a ‘ 65 Telecaster I 'd bought which had been my main instrument for writing the material . |
| 3 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 4 | ‘ Up until then I 'd been using gas and air and they were just about to give me some pethidine when all this serious discussion began . |
| 5 | How dared he believe that she 'd been taking money from Travis to pay her way ? |
| 6 | I mean when you 're on picket line it 's very depressing it 's very heart breaking unless you get some comedian or something you know it gets er y you do n't know what to do with yourself and perhaps they 'd been taking pots of this paint I 'm not saying . |
| 7 | I mean I think er , when your blood pressure was found out and you 'd been taking tablets ever , so , I think it 's kept it all under control and you 've , you , we eat a sensible diet . |
| 8 | ‘ She 'd been taking hush-money for the last ten years . ’ |
| 9 | At the Court of Appeal today , Rachael 's solicitor explained that he 'd been frightened of losing the children , and that for several weeks before the killing he 'd been taking medication for depression . |
| 10 | Oh she 'd been taking Matthew to work . |
| 11 | ‘ She said she 'd been peeling onions . |
| 12 | Until then he 'd been expecting Blagg , and he might know exactly what he 'd left . ’ |
| 13 | Somehow she 'd been expecting resistance , something she had frequently encountered with Graham Rowell whenever she had attempted anything new , and it came as a shock to find that she and David Markham were on the same wavelength . |
| 14 | From Jeff 's description , she 'd been expecting horns and cloven hoofs ! |
| 15 | He 'd been watching humans . |
| 16 | I 'd thought you 'd been getting exercise in . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I had to warn Monty about his drinking because he 'd been causing trouble , ’ MGM 's then chief of production , Dore Schary said to me . |
| 19 | He 'd been hearing things , Denis had said , and he wanted to know what was going on at Rafferty 's . |
| 20 | Ted was awake and out here because he 'd been hearing Wayne speaking to him , and he was worried about his sanity . |
| 21 | He 'd been dropping drives at my feet on the beach in practice . |
| 22 | Because he 'd been seeing psychiatrists since 1950 he fancied he was an expert on Freud and wanted to sit in on all our discussions . |
| 23 | It is a work that could have been written by a man who 'd been writing operas for twenty years and it introduced me to Ben 's remarkable sense of theatre . |
| 24 | ‘ He 'd been writing cheques all weekend on a closed account , ’ Vicky says . |
| 25 | You , you , you 've all hea heard of Marie Curie , famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century she in fact was Polish , lived in , in , in Paris , married a French man called Pierre er hence she 's known as Marie Curie well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that , th the fact that there did n't seem to be any biological affects er certainly the doses of radiation that , that they were , they were getting they 'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende , that 's radioactive ore they extracted several grammes of radium from it , they 'd been handling stuff for years they were n't ill , they obviously had n't died and so on . |
| 26 | And the lessons learned were , how to manage projects better than we 'd been managing projects before . |
| 27 | I tried it once and burnt my mouth so badly I looked like I 'd been kissing superglue . |
| 28 | But the niece was very bitter about it — I had to write a letter to her solicitors a year or so later because she 'd been bothering Angela long after the estate was settled . ’ |
| 29 | Ever since Dad 's death , she 'd been reading letters from her mother singing Romano 's praises , and detailing the dangerous sports she 'd been encouraged to take up by the wretched man … |
| 30 | So much for Candy 's theory that he 'd been stalking Rory ! |