Example sentences of "they 'd [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Illegal shipments seized at customs went round like a kiss at a party — police , SAS , departments like the one Todd ran … then on to the people they 'd been intended for in the first place — the syndicates who brought them down to street level , street prices . |
| 2 | ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family . |
| 3 | Nobody left the queue : they were n't going to lose their place , they 'd been queueing for an hour . |
| 4 | But then , when you said they 'd been gone for a couple of years … ’ |
| 5 | They 'd been gone for so long now . |
| 6 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 7 | They 'd been heading for a festival in Chipping Sodbury , but had been diverted by police . |
| 8 | That 's what they 'd been fighting for for twenty years . |
| 9 | They 'd been waiting for me , it seemed , in a mutual absence of civility . |
| 10 | The fog lifted and the house became filled with a babble of excitable people , few of whom spoke English and who all arrived at once because they 'd been waiting for a clear passage . |
| 11 | They 'd been waiting for a council house for 5 years . |
| 12 | The third she found broken , knocked over on to its side , the water dripping from a puddle on the windowsill on to a seat below and through that on to the floor , and the flowers scattered and brown-edged , as if they 'd been picked for their beauty and freshness by a little girl and then loosed regardlessly on the path from her sticky hands as she ran off to do something else . |