Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] 'd been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I , I only took one case on after I was married er and that er that was a maternity case I 'd been to the first baby . |
| 2 | Until we came to the Furka I 'd been impressed by the Spirit R/T , surprised by the agility of its handling , the sensitivity and accuracy of its power-assisted rack-and-pinion steering , the breadth of the uninterrupted acceleration from its powerful turbocharged engine , the lightness of the controls and the quality of the gearchange . |
| 3 | I wondered what she was doing , whether she was the eyeful I 'd been told , and whether she 'd appreciate a neighbourly call at two a.m . |
| 4 | just that the punk I 'd been watching would hold open a car door for somebody else , the new top operator . |
| 5 | I wanted to top up the pond I 'd been cleaning out . |
| 6 | Everyone stopped where they were and stared as she pointed dramatically at a dark green house plant which stood on some kind of plinth behind the seat she 'd been allocated . |
| 7 | ‘ Yup , ’ she 'd said , shifting down to fourth as a car she 'd been waiting to pass pulled back into the slow lane . |
| 8 | His voice sounded cynical , but then he smiled , almost as if he understood the look of sudden shock on her face , as he once more became that unfriendly stranger who 'd been her brother 's best friend . |
| 9 | Starring Anthony Hopkins , it was based on a book by an American journalist who 'd been one of the first people into the bunker after the allied victory . |
| 10 | Just imagine having a mummy who 'd been a Brownie Guider but who would n't let you be a Brownie ! |
| 11 | Yet what really were the chances of seeing the very car you 'd been asked to look out for ? |
| 12 | ‘ T' Brownies laid yum acrost t' river one night long ago so'as an old farmwife who 'd been kind to yum could get over to her daughter 's house on t' other side without goin' miles a-down t' river t' bridge . ’ |
| 13 | If they 'd caught her , they 'd have stuck her in Imbrium or somewhere , some institution She 'd been in places like that before That was like death to her There must have been a lot of them caught like that , at the end , |
| 14 | Last spring there 'd been a blackbird 's nest in the tree by the goal-post in the school playing-fields . |
| 15 | The classroom was the warehouse they 'd been in before . |
| 16 | No one was jumping for joy because they 'd finally got the piece they 'd been searching for for years . |
| 17 | worse thinking he 'd been to solicitors but I 'm trying to track down anybody ! |
| 18 | He bent to pick up the card he 'd been carrying then scowled at the deserted foyer . |
| 19 | Martinho , too , sensing what the rules of disengagement from the deathbed were going to be , allowed them to have their fun , or the priestly hypocrite he 'd been in the jungle — got his kicks out of the spectacle , what he might regard as my just deserts for my equivocal behaviour toward him in those nightmare days . |
| 20 | The only other thing that you heard Sergeant say that some how at the briefing he 'd been given information that was likely to be in the master bedroom . |
| 21 | There was no logical reason why they should add to the vague tension he 'd been conscious of all day . |
| 22 | A commodity never difficult to find , in John-William 's experience , particularly now when the Chartist leaders , who had been locked up after the troubles of 1839 , were all out of prison again ; except for that Sheffield lad , of course , who 'd died at twenty-seven , from the hard labour he 'd been put to at Northallerton jail . |
| 23 | The Deputy Director of the SIS was a man you could pass in the street without noticing , an effect he 'd been careful to cultivate . |
| 24 | I done it to I done it to Russell one night messing around and he told the girls in work I 'd been away for the weekend and he 'd had somebody else there honest to God he did ! |
| 25 | It was n't until The Byrds ’ ‘ Untitled ’ double album came out with the liner notes explaining all about the string-bender that I found out what a fool I 'd been … |
| 26 | Not only had I gained the technical degree I 'd been chasing , but I 'd finally achieved a position in a business when I could use that expertise to its full potential . |
| 27 | THERE is a first time for everything : Aladdin was the first panto I 'd been to and the first Frank Bruno has performed in . |
| 28 | I 'll tell you a lovely story when we had the Queen at the day before when we had had the dress rehearsal I 'd been out to erm London to pick erm up an old lady who 's now dead , who very seldom got out and was pretty well house-bound to come and see the rehearsal as a little Sunday treat |
| 29 | The vasectomy dated from 1980 , when a girl I 'd been sleeping with told me she was embarazada . |
| 30 | I said I could see Victor was right , I had over-complicated the plot ; I should not have introduced the letters , which were paraphrases of a correspondence I 'd been reading on my journey to London . |