Example sentences of "[Wh det] i 'd [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In 1980 I was 19 and just coming to the end of The Skids , which I 'd been in since I was 15 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I 'd been dreaming , that 's what I 'd been doing . |
| 6 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's just what I 'd been thinking ! ’ answered Gabriel in surprise . |
| 8 | The actual experience was n't frightening me so much as what I 'd been told . |
| 9 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 10 | so it was totally different work from what I 'd been used to . |
| 11 | I feel that it was actually so quick — not at all what I 'd been led to expect from antenatal classes — that I could n't savour the birth or get used to the idea . |
| 12 | I do n't know what I 'd been expecting . |
| 13 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 14 | I did n't care if it was raw , if the pangs of birth were ugly ; I wanted to be somewhere I would n't be defined by what I 'd been , where I could fashion a new notion of myself and impose it on others as the truth . |
| 15 | ‘ Knowing what I 'd been through ? |
| 16 | Oh , that 's what I 'd been thinking , fifty percent of what they want . |
| 17 | But this is so different to what I 'd been doing as it is for most people . |