Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] 'd been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lucille Walker had n't brought me clear over to Hollywood just to tell me I 'd been played for a sucker . |
| 2 | His friend held my other hand and told me I 'd been brave . |
| 3 | Er but I used to tell people and they you know people near me that had a lot of children and er they 'd moan and groan about it , I heard one woman say erm , she 'd had quite a few children and I I 'd been in hospital and I said er , er a certain person that 'd had a baby had lost it . |
| 4 | Yes well we I I 'd been working on the Menai Suspension Bridge repa you know , when they were rep doing the repairing like . |
| 5 | He I I 'd been to them over a a period of about two years erm with all sorts o of different problems and in the end he said , You know I can increase your drugs but that wo n't help . |
| 6 | He wanted to expand , so he went into partnership with someone he 'd been doing business with . |
| 7 | ‘ In 1980 I was 19 and just coming to the end of The Skids , which I 'd been in since I was 15 . |
| 8 | Feeling pleased for them , I lowered the binoculars through which I 'd been able to see even the tears on Mrs Unwin 's cheeks , and there below me and in front of the grandstand was the man with the gaunt face looking up towards the Clubhouse windows . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | One evening we filmed at six o'clock a commercial which I 'd been handed in script form at five o'clock the same evening . |
| 11 | Without warning he grabbed her tennis racquet — which she 'd been swinging so nonchalantly and grasping her by the scruff of the neck , pushed her roughly over the back of a chair . |
| 12 | It was as if her mind had split into two separate portions , Gina thought as with one part of it she listened attentively to the technical explanations and absorbed the aesthetic appearance of the system with approving eyes , her creative instincts stimulated with the challenge with which she 'd been bestowed . |
| 13 | Halfway outbound in the hold the scheduled traffic for which we 'd been waiting landed , and we swooped down , just catching the ILS . |
| 14 | On arrival I went to the Met Office to see the TAF which we 'd been unable to obtain at Vigo , and the forecast was three at 2,800 , with no mention of stratus ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Perhaps they objected to the destruction of Buckingham and the web of deceit to which they 'd been party ? ’ |
| 17 | In 1984 he had nothing left to prove — he was successful , shooting stock shots for The Image Bank , which he 'd been a director of for six years . |
| 18 | He 'd had a bad dream in which he 'd been not only head of the Conservative Research Department , but also with the Raj in Belfast , and confronted by coalminers and oil-rig workers to boot . |
| 19 | His life had been spent tending the land to which he 'd been born and what more could any man want ? |
| 20 | Mike lowered the can of Coke which he 'd been emptying down his parched throat . |
| 21 | There were also photographs of his weak and charming father , who had read Pravda and the Daily Telegraph every morning , and his beautiful feckless mother , who 'd run off with an Italian and now lived in some palazzo in Rome , and of the huge house in which he 'd been brought up . |
| 22 | He 'd daubed a rock with paint and used the tell-tale splashes to correct a slight right-hand drift , and then he 'd taken a rasp to the elaborate Monte Carlo grip , reshaping the stock to approximate to the military form on which he 'd been trained and binding it with tape when it was as he wanted . |
| 23 | The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so . |
| 24 | What happened , though , was he ordered one of the captains on a dangerous mission-just how dangerous I knew — on which he 'd been wounded and the young wives had n't forgiven her for it . |
| 25 | He spread the trousers carefully on the large deal table , put the towel with which he 'd been drying the luncheon dishes carefully on top of the faded tweed , smoothed it into place and began to poke out the creases with an old iron . |
| 26 | Very urgent business which he 'd been putting off . |
| 27 | She knew he was referring to her last meeting with Jake and that explosive love scene in the drawing-room , only the sketchiest version of which he 'd been privy to . |
| 28 | Just that someone told me you 'd been seeing her . |
| 29 | ‘ Then she told me she 'd been offered a part in Jane Eyre at Warrington rep and did I think she ought to accept . |
| 30 | And then a few weeks ago she told me she 'd been invited to go and see him at his house or ‘ castle ’ as Blufton prefers to call it . ’ |