Example sentences of "'d been [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | All she could recollect was that she 'd been amazed to find that they 'd been born on practically the same day in August : she on the sixth , and he on the eighth . |
| 2 | If she 'd been born on time this party would n't have happened until Christmas . |
| 3 | Digging might not be classed as essential training , but he 'd been sent on attachment to learn all about real soldiering . |
| 4 | It was as if she 'd been calling on a dead line to an empty building . |
| 5 | If she 'd been staying on the boat for any length of time it would have been necessary to find somewhere to go for a shower or a bath , but it did n't look as if that particular problem would arise . |
| 6 | I did n't need a pee because I 'd been pissing on the Poles during the day , infecting them with my scent and power . |
| 7 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 8 | You would n't think I 'd been complimented on them , would you , but when I 'appened to show them accidental to a gentleman once , he said I ought to go on the stage and wear tights and a little frou-frou skirt — here , where you goin' ? ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Kitty told us you 'd been killed on the Western Front and that was why she ‘ ad to sell 112 . |
| 10 | Now she realised he 'd been hovering on the verges of her thoughts , just waiting for an opportunity to pounce . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Three years ago Anna McGurk was murdered by a man who 'd been bailed on a rape charge . |
| 13 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 14 | I said I could see Victor was right , I had over-complicated the plot ; I should not have introduced the letters , which were paraphrases of a correspondence I 'd been reading on my journey to London . |
| 15 | They knew she 'd been drinking on the way in . |
| 16 | She 'd been counting on rescue services arriving with the dawn , but maybe they would n't be coming after all . |
| 17 | It was body language I 'd been counting on to win her round . |
| 18 | And he worked it out , he took about three or four weeks to work it out , and he 'd been overcharged on the interest like . |
| 19 | A post-mortem examination at the time showed she 'd been hit on the head with a blunt instrument . |
| 20 | My father , old but gritty , glamorous in the eyes of the class of '68 , a South London wide boy with an authentic background , described his grandfather 's funeral , about 1912 , when a whole other family , wife , children , grandchildren , turned up out of the blue from somewhere further down the line where they 'd been established on the navvy 's journey north . |
| 21 | At the end of our corridor is the playroom where the children not yet in school spend their days with playworkers — unemployed women who 'd been signing on the dole before getting these " work experience scheme " jobs funded by the Manpower Services Commission . |
| 22 | I felt she had n't been thinking about Charlie at all — except as an inspiration — but that , like me , she 'd been dwelling on what she might do in the world . |
| 23 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 24 | she 'd been put on that file — ‘ just by mistake ’ , |
| 25 | ‘ How did you know I 'd been put on probation ? ’ |
| 26 | The police say he 'd been arrested last month and questioned about threats to Mrs Smith , but he 'd been released on police bail pending further enquiries . |
| 27 | He 'd been released on bail by Cheltenham magistrates after being charged with raping a twenty year old woman . |
| 28 | She 'd been found on the floor beside her pushchair in the office of a local playgroup . |
| 29 | She 'd been found on the floor beside her pushchair in the office of a local playgroup . |
| 30 | They 'd been typed on an old portable with a faded ribbon , so badly laid out that it was obvious Diane was no typist . |