Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] you [vb past] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't remember exactly when it was , but I know Oliver was tiny and you 'd been ill . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
| 3 | When you get too much when you 'd been er a little bit longer , you 'd perhaps go ganging . |
| 4 | oh , and they 'd been married , what she 's ten years older than you had been married |
| 5 | Can you imagine getting dragged down to Lord 's only after you 'd been hung up by every sports page in the country ? |
| 6 | I 'm sure you 'd have done the same if you 'd been in my shoes . ’ |
| 7 | As Lord Devlin has explained : " … you can not escape liability for defamation by putting the libel behind a prefix such as " I have been told that … " " or " it is rumoured that … " " , and then asserting that it was true that you had been told or that it was in fact being rumoured … |