Example sentences of "we 'd been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 2 | If we 'd been looking for an easy acquaintance with nature , we would have chosen a different landscape : something lusher and more intricate , not this bleak and famished hillside on the Atlantic 's edge . |
| 3 | I think that if we 'd been looking for some rather more er refined instruments of taxation , I nearly said torture , er from the continent then we might have looked er and found some rather better means of getting local money in to finance local government . |
| 4 | We 'd been shagging for about a month . |
| 5 | I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on . |