Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd been expecting for ages to hear you two were getting engaged . |
| 2 | I 'd been caddying for Ralph Moffatt on the pro circuit and got him through the pre-qualifier at Fairhaven , so I told him I 'd be caddying for him in the Open as I 'd heard nothing from Jack . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Chris had insisted that if he was going to go out there , then so was I. I 'd been searching for a way out all night , but nothing convincing came to mind . |
| 5 | Ever since I started consultancy work in politics , I 'd been pushing for the use of this simple invention — a British one — but it was n't until after President Reagan used it in his address to the Houses of Parliament that our politicians felt it was worthy of notice . |
| 6 | I 'd been loading for him , loading the t coal into tubs and tramming them . |
| 7 | So , off he went and came back one day saying that he thought he had the song I 'd been looking for . |
| 8 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 9 | Equally the use of ebony seemed a good choice ; I 'd been looking for an excuse to make something in ebony for ages , anyway ! |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd been looking for a fairly young product which had a range of merchandise to allow a shop to stand on its own two feet . |
| 11 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
| 12 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 13 | No , not just one day , as I said , I 'd been trying for a few |
| 14 | But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs . |
| 15 | Some items I 'd been holding for him . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For one thing Harlow is the sort of town which I 'd been agitating for both before and after the war whenever I was speaking on behalf of the Labour Party both at street corners and at public meetings on the type of life we vis envisaged for a normal person in the land . |
| 18 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 19 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 20 | The moment I 'd been waiting for so long had arrived . |
| 21 | I mean the doctor was no help and I 'd been waiting for over a coupla months to get into the Clinic for a detox . |
| 22 | I also had a look at the fact that Toby might well be — or have been — the man I 'd been waiting for , though God knows I 'd never have recognized him in a million years if we had n't happened , entirely by accident , to stumble into each other 's arms . |
| 23 | Actually , I 'd been waiting for somebody else but I just happened to be on hand and I could n't just stand there and watch her struggle with all those boxes , suitcases , typewriters , bicycles , stereo systems and so on . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , I 'd been waiting for her , too ! |
| 25 | I got this job in the machine sh in one of the lock shops and er for a fellow , I worked for him and er after I 'd been working for him they wanted me to work for somebody else but this fellow would n't let me go . |
| 26 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 27 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 28 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |
| 29 | So , you did so many miles per hour , we calculated , you would have done so many miles if you 'd been going for a full hour at that speed , so your dis your , your speed , velocity really but we 'll call it speed , right ? |
| 30 | The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving . |