Example sentences of "[verb] i 'd [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are about fourteen roads , streets , crescents , avenues , walks , and squares all called whatever it was you told James , and I visited number fifteen in all of them before I realized I 'd been had . |
| 2 | You would n't think I 'd been complimented on them , would you , but when I 'appened to show them accidental to a gentleman once , he said I ought to go on the stage and wear tights and a little frou-frou skirt — here , where you goin' ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I was bleeding and realised I 'd been hit . ’ |
| 4 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 5 | ‘ How did you know I 'd been put on probation ? ’ |
| 6 | There certainly was n't in mine because I 'd I 'd been sacked . |
| 7 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 8 | It was a relief to get a flight the next morning , yet I felt I 'd been dragged away from Dominica : I had not explored its dangerous magic as I ought to have done . |
| 9 | After that row with my father , I felt I 'd been turned down by them all . |
| 10 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 11 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 12 | You 'd met my father and mother , you knew I 'd been raised in a very repressed , almost Victorian household . |
| 13 | And yes , he knew I 'd been hit . ’ |
| 14 | I thought I 'd been framed . ’ |
| 15 | co-ordinates up , erm , you know , I have n't yet had contact from er no , I thought I 'd been given a new name , but , no I have n't had con any contact from my new co-ordinator yet , erm , but that was n't in my mind when I spoke on Thursday about Christmas , perhaps I ought to pursue that one in time for the next meeting and see what 's happening in South Africa and are getting it in South America for . |
| 16 | At first I thought I 'd been commissioned to rewrite The Archers theme . |
| 17 | I could n't see anything , and I thought I 'd been stung by ants , but the knee became swollen and blistered and then I noticed tracks like blisters crawling up my leg from my knee , and over the course of months they went crawling up and up and round my leg — terrifying ! |
| 18 | I told my supplier — you know , I said I 'd been done over , I had no money , n. stuff . |
| 19 | She said I 'd been given all I 'd get and I said it was n't enough . ’ |
| 20 | He said I 'd been cheated . ’ |
| 21 | My mother had a fit when I went home and my aunt said I 'd been taken on . |
| 22 | I wish I 'd been told early on what I looked like and what I was doing to my body . |
| 23 | Nobody wanted to be cruel enough to hurt me because they thought I was so vulnerable at that time and I really wish I 'd been told that I looked disgusting ! |
| 24 | ‘ I wish I 'd been brought up in one of these , ’ he said , ‘ rather than a tower block . |
| 25 | There was the beer keg I 'd been tied to and the length of wire I 'd probably been tied with lay on the floor . |