Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd [adv] [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mentally I 'd never been out of it . |
| 2 | I 'd hardly been back for years — only briefly , when Mama died . |
| 3 | I decided to give her Arsenicum Album LM1 in a 100ml bottle and within 1 month she was feeling much better , her period had been the best she could remember and she 'd even been out to a party . |
| 4 | Mrs Foster had told them Matthew was a bad-tempered boy , and she 'd certainly been right about the bad-tempered part , though this was no boy standing here looking at her with such menace . |
| 5 | She 'd never been away from home before and her new husband and in-laws were virtual strangers . |
| 6 | And that was true , for her — she 'd never been out of love with him and if he was falling for her he could n't have loved her before . |
| 7 | Cos I says what you doing still working here , you know , that 's what we 'd just been on about |
| 8 | He made it sound like we 've been our for a , you know , a romantic candle lit dinner and , you know , and we 'd just been down to his study for God 's sake ! |
| 9 | We 'd never been apart from each other for more than two weeks when I was arrested . |
| 10 | All she could think of was that they 'd all been in on this — a kind of family Mafia , working behind the scenes to make sure that Lucenzo ended up with everything , his empire untouched . |
| 11 | He 'd never been out of Russia . |
| 12 | He 'd never been out on the roads and got killed . |
| 13 | He just disappeared , as if he 'd never been there at all . |