Example sentences of "'d be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
| 2 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 3 | Ven queried , as well he might , she realised , for she 'd been chatting to him like a veritable magpie all evening with not so much as a hint of shyness . |
| 4 | Cos Ange said she 'd , she 'd been chatting about Jenny to her . |
| 5 | He had n't said he was going away and renting his house , which was odd because they 'd been chatting in the village not two days before he 'd disappeared and Leo taken up residence . |
| 6 | Now he was on his third circuit of the Bay : he 'd been ducking under bulldozers for almost an hour . |
| 7 | It was as if she 'd been calling on a dead line to an empty building . |
| 8 | After missing him during his stay in Geneva ( he 'd been presiding over Berlioz 's Benvenuto Cellini at the Grand Théâtre there ) , I finally succeeded in making contact with him in Rome , where he was conducting the orchestra of the Academia di Santa Cecilia in music by Schubert , Nino Rota and , not unexpectedly , Berlioz — the Symphonie fantastique . |
| 9 | Isabel 's personal integrity had been there in her clear gaze all the time , if he 'd been thinking with his head instead of with his emotions . |
| 10 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 11 | 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 … |
| 12 | Now he 'd lost track of what he 'd been thinking of completely . |
| 13 | ‘ And I 'd been thinking of you only yesterday . |
| 14 | He 'd been thinking of asking one of the two who had entered the front room during Slater 's monologue — the more attractive of them — for a dance even as Slater was telling him how desirable Richard Slater was . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd been thinking of it , ’ he said . |
| 16 | I 'd been thinking of you know things that that I had that can go . |
| 17 | The whole idea that he 'd been thinking about since Christmas seemed pointless all of a sudden . |
| 18 | She 'd had a fever since last night , and all day at school he 'd been thinking about her . |
| 19 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 20 | He 'd been thinking about her , but he did n't want it to show . |
| 21 | She 'd been thinking about becoming a nun but she could n't be with a baby . |
| 22 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 23 | She 'd been thinking about something , or somebody , else . |
| 24 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | They 'd been strolling through the individual gardens within the whole for more than two hours , while Rune told her about the traditions of the gardens and how , despite attempts at imitation , they remained unique in Europe — if not the world — before they reached the area set aside for the funfair and he suggested she might like a ride on some of the attractions . |
| 27 | She apologised , over the phone , the next day ; she 'd been hiding under the bedclothes , playing her favourite David Bowie cassette at maximum volume on her Sony Walkman , trying to drown the noise of the thunder . |
| 28 | He 'd been hiding in a woodland graveyard , only half-heartedly concealed behind one of the leaning roofed crosses . |
| 29 | Even when she 'd been helping in the kitchen she 'd found her eyes straying , as if magnetised , in his direction . |
| 30 | Look , ’ and she opened her handbag and reached inside , ‘ this was one I 'd been saving for him — ’ Her voice cracked and she began to cry . |