Example sentences of "[pron] 'd been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 2 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 3 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 4 | The last dying patient I 'd been to visit in this hospital had been the caretaker of our Health Centre , in much pain from a carcinoma of the pancreas . |
| 5 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 6 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | I 'd been indulging in good heart exercise while sitting still . |
| 9 | The vasectomy dated from 1980 , when a girl I 'd been sleeping with told me she was embarazada . |
| 10 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 12 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 13 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 14 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 15 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 16 | I 'd been falling since nineteen |
| 17 | I tried to remember when I 'd been held like that before , and by whom . |
| 18 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 19 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 20 | The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving . |
| 21 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 22 | Right , David , you said you 'd been approached by another insurance company , er , I could obviously say , I recommended Abbey Life , and I 'm tied to that , but I actually joined because I think they 're a particularly good company , in that what , in the use they make of the money that I 'm paying , actually goes , performs very well . |
| 23 | She 'd been waylaid within ten feet of the front door , which did n't surprise me , by a chinless wonder in a baggy suit and powder blue trainers ( nobody wears trainers with a suit any more ) . |
| 24 | She even managed to convince the man that she 'd been sent by Roman to inspect the goods . |
| 25 | The touch of his hands on her back that afternoon … she 'd been gripped by such a war of reaction inside her . |
| 26 | Mina said Gustav said she 'd been killed by Allied planes . |
| 27 | She 'd been strangled with some kind of flex or cord . |
| 28 | well I think Dawn is quite happy now , I mean I think she felt as though she 'd been rushed at first , but I mean |
| 29 | She 'd been living with one of his men , a guy who knew a lot about his affairs , and Connie could n't help knowing plenty of things that Bonanza would not want advertised on the radio . ’ |
| 30 | She had a skullcracker of a headache , and guessed she 'd been opened in several places by knifecuts , branded in others by dollops of fire . |