Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] 'd been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night . |
| 2 | ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’ |
| 3 | If she 'd been more of a woman , he believed , she would have meekly accepted his word and left it at that . |
| 4 | I do n't know what I 'd have done if you 'd been any later — the girls are getting terribly impatient . ’ |
| 5 | And of course it would n't if we 'd been more accurately given the address , but |
| 6 | This is his final total after he 'd been all the way round St Aldate 's , he went round 73 houses , and he says here , I think this is a sort of hieroglyphic that would probably mean something like 'item' . |
| 7 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 8 | Seeing as he 'd been such a pain , I was a little slow going to his rescue . |
| 9 | Pulling the tabs on the thermal cans to heat up the food , she glanced over at him but he was exactly as he 'd been all day , close yet remote , unreachable . |