Example sentences of "'d been [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been sent there for contempt of court by Essex magistrates when she refused to answer questions about her personal finances in a poll tax case . |
| 2 | well needs a I think one of the things we discussed in the branch action group meeting is actually , were n't quite sure what the cos we 'd been sending out for quite less than ten of the branches because to do something to them which was mm apparently lots of them in but erm well they keep disappearing so that the what we 've been talking about is to try and get some points erm health and safety station within the branch , which actually just has all this stuff for it . |
| 3 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They 'd been living together for many years . |
| 6 | She 'd been summoned there for refusing to pay a poll tax surcharge of £14.52 . |
| 7 | Within minutes the car was free , and before I could thank the young farmer I 'd been invited back for a cup of tea and some hot broth . |
| 8 | as if she 'd been waiting outside for a convenient pause in their conversation , the vaporeuse knocked on the door and opened it . |
| 9 | He 'd been waiting there for me , I concluded . |
| 10 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 11 | And yes , he 'd been working there for several days . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'd been working solidly for eighteen months , ’ she pointed out . |
| 13 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 14 | And Ben like when we were sort of there Ben sort of we 'd been sitting around for a while and he said it 's very embarrassing to have to ask this but you 're staying the night and stuff erm are you two a couple or are you just friends so no , just friends but it 's alright , if you do n't have any spare rooms we 'll be perfectly happy to sleep together , do n't worry . |
| 15 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 16 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 17 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
| 18 | His wife , Shirley , believed we 'd been brought together for a reason and , after a while , she reckoned my sight would be healed . |