Example sentences of "'d [been] [verb] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 2 | The last dying patient I 'd been to visit in this hospital had been the caretaker of our Health Centre , in much pain from a carcinoma of the pancreas . |
| 3 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 4 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 5 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 6 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 7 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 8 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 9 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 10 | Five minutes later he came in trying to tell tell us jokes and each time he 'd been paddling through this brake fluid and the carpet is just you know , brains |