Example sentences of "[conj] i 'd be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
| 2 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 3 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 4 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 5 | Mind you in between that I 'd been working on the fa farm farm . |
| 6 | ‘ And I 'd been thinking of you only yesterday . |
| 7 | I mean the doctor was no help and I 'd been waiting for over a coupla months to get into the Clinic for a detox . |
| 8 | If I 'd been working at home today I should have put on my old skirt and my old pullover , so as to have something comfortably rough and worn around me . |
| 9 | I 'd have seen it if I 'd been coming down the stairs instead of in the lift . |
| 10 | And that was the only part I did n't care for , because if I 'd been arriving at a lot of conclusions that were wrong , then I could be wrong about this too . |
| 11 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 12 | I did n't know what to say , but I 'd been reading about mating in a book only a few days before , so I kept a perfectly straight face and replied . |
| 13 | Cos that 's why I did n't get any when I got my last prescription because I 'd been trying to just sort of even take one |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Since I 'd been living in the flat , Shadwell had been coming to see Eva at least once a week , during the day , when Dad was at the office . |
| 16 | After I 'd been talking to him about leaving . |
| 17 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 18 | I got this job in the machine sh in one of the lock shops and er for a fellow , I worked for him and er after I 'd been working for him they wanted me to work for somebody else but this fellow would n't let me go . |
| 19 | But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs . |
| 20 | She 'd sided with my parents a couple of years before when I 'd been thinking of a career as an artist , and they were opposed to that … |
| 21 | The Emissary 's Illusochamber had also been free of bugging devices as I 'd found when I 'd been fiddling with my headband , activating a mini-ceptor in one of the jewels . |
| 22 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 23 | ‘ I feel as though I 'd been living under an anaesthetic for years and years . ’ |