Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd [be] born [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 2 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 3 | If she had the sense she 'd been born with she 'd get up from the table right now , wish him a polite good evening , and scuttle back to the safety of the dressing-room , there to make a pledge never to risk being in his company again . |
| 4 | If she 'd been born on time this party would n't have happened until Christmas . |
| 5 | It was n't her real name and — like Horowitz — she 'd been born in Hungary . |
| 6 | Strange , she thought crossly , that the Copenhageners were n't all wearing ankle bandages , but then they 'd been born to the decorative but tricky pavements and attuned their footwear accordingly . |
| 7 | All she could recollect was that she 'd been amazed to find that they 'd been born on practically the same day in August : she on the sixth , and he on the eighth . |
| 8 | TOTALLY UNKNOWN US bluesman comes to Britain and gets schlepped into a studio to record with a bunch of locals who wish they 'd been born in America 's Deep South . |
| 9 | She 'd been so sure he 'd been born to money . |
| 10 | Ted was a child of the sixties , but he sounded as if he 'd been born in the Blitz . |
| 11 | She saw him scowl darkly as he scanned the page , and wondered for a few moments if perhaps , although he could speak her tongue almost as if he 'd been born in her country , he did not read English so well . |