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When we use the Past Perfect Continuous in speaking,



       we often contract the subject and the first auxiliary. We


       even do this in informal writing.





                               I had been                                         I’d been



                            You had been                                       You’d been




                            She had been                                       She’d been



                              It had been                                        It’d been



                          They had been                                      They’d been
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