Example sentences of "'d [adv] been in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd only been in Monty 's poky little office for ten minutes and already he had given me two priceless lessons in my future profession — to make sure I dressed properly , and never be afraid to ask the question " Why ? " |
| 2 | He 'd only been in eighteen months , ’ said the Bishop , in the manner of a man who is used to a longer temporal perspective . |
| 3 | She 'd only been in Dane 's company for a matter of days , but he 'd left a mark on her , a mark it could prove impossible to erase . |
| 4 | I was a gunner , I 'd only been in er |
| 5 | Christ , I 'd only been in the hospital for about ten minutes before I snuffed it ! ’ |
| 6 | Glancing at the clock on the wall now , Rory realised to her amazement that he 'd only been in the farmhouse for three hours . |
| 7 | That were in the freezer and they 'd obviously been in there for a bit too long . |
| 8 | ( She told me later she 'd just been in hospital . |
| 9 | I 'd not been in London long and those lesbian and gay friends I had were involved in squatting more than gay liberation . |
| 10 | He was sentenced to twelve months in jail but was released when the court heard he 'd already been in custody for ten months . |
| 11 | To imagine for the last time the forests and oceans , green and alive , the way they 'd always been in historical dramas . |
| 12 | ‘ And I 'm sure he would have reciprocated the pleasure , mus , especially if you 'd still been in the same state of undress as you were when I left you . |
| 13 | It would have made her task easier if he 'd still been in the bitter , brutal mood that had possessed him after William Ash had delivered his ultimatum , but she did n't understand him at present . |
| 14 | But er , yes er , I would have been er , I think if I 'd still been in Jim 's place , er quite rightly so , getting all that we can for the town . |
| 15 | But today Gloria blundered out through the swing doors when she 'd hardly been in there any time at all and looked like she was groping along in her sleep . |
| 16 | It was the flight path the one man she 'd ever been In Love with had taken her for the first time , after a late film at the Paris Pullman , Kensington to Hampstead at two a.m . |
| 17 | ‘ It was a process of necessity , really but , since it was just me and a Portastudio , it was the first time I 'd ever been in the position of being able to write and record without any kind of pressure from anyone else . |
| 18 | Suddenly it felt dark and oppressive in the little office , heavy with all the unhappiness there 'd ever been in the Demdyke house . |
| 19 | I was probably more afraid than I 'd ever been in my life but I was too busy to notice it . |
| 20 | The two of them , closer in death than they 'd ever been in life . |
| 21 | Despite being more nervous than he 'd ever been in his life he hit a 3-iron from the edge of the fairway bunker to within 20 feet of the flag . |
| 22 | One moment she had been happier than she 'd ever been in her life , the next she was alone again . |
| 23 | She was even beginning to wonder if she 'd really been in love with Hugh — properly in love . |
| 24 | He 'd never been in the garden again , though Mr Field said he could . |
| 25 | She 'd never been in a hackney cab . |
| 26 | I 'd never been in the cab of a moving train before , and I felt I could have stayed there all day . |
| 27 | I 'd never been in a helicopter in my life ; you think , ‘ This is alright , ’ until you get in the bloody thing ! |
| 28 | well we always had entertained friends but we 'd never been in a position to put them up so that erm most of our friendly visits were from people who did n't live very far from us , it meant that families , nieces , nephews etcetera were difficult to accommodate because they had to sleep on a couch or a settee in the living room with all its diff difficulties , especially when it meant in the morning for breakfast you had to get them up and dressed before you could start thinking about breakfast , and I think that those sort of things are things that er people ought to take into consideration when thinking about new housing . |
| 29 | I 'd never been in there before ; it was dark and stuffy and full of bloody , primitive colours . |
| 30 | I 'd never been in hospital before , and after the first day I felt well enough to notice things like the faint smell , which I thought was of death , but which was disinfectant , and to be mildly infuriated by hospital routine . |