Example sentences of "'d [be] [v-ing] there [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 2 | He 'd been waiting there for me , I concluded . |
| 3 | And yes , he 'd been working there for several days . |
| 4 | He looked as if he 'd been Lying there on his stomach for quite a while . |
| 5 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 6 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 7 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 8 | Just imagine if he 'd been sitting there with his legs dangling outside . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Here she was , imagining that the last half-hour had been a sort of truce — telling Marc all those things about her life on the stage , all those silly , funny , self-mocking stories of disaster and mayhem that were part of the business , and he 'd been sitting there in judgement all that time , working out how much Peter might or might not have paid her for playing the part of his fiancée … |