Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd [be] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , we had no accidents , the only one I had was er when I 'd been right to the top , with the other crane an and it was a long shop , and everyone had done with me during the morning , so I hoisted the crane up , pulled it in towards me and set myself going down the shop , put it in full speed . |
| 2 | I 'd been right about the biological cleaners . |
| 3 | I 'd been right about Lloyd 's two-tone shoes though I had expected him to put socks on , and I was wrong about the hat — it was a white Panama . |
| 4 | I 'd been right in thinking that he was n't seriously hurt , and they soon had him well again . |
| 5 | I 'd been away for the weekend to a little shack a hundred miles away . |
| 6 | I done it to I done it to Russell one night messing around and he told the girls in work I 'd been away for the weekend and he 'd had somebody else there honest to God he did ! |
| 7 | Within an hour of sitting down at my old desk , reading through my old files and shouting at my not so old secretary I felt as if I 'd been away from work for maybe just a week 's holiday . |
| 8 | But when we moved in here , because I 'd been away from him for five months and I 'd learned to cope for myself , I started standing up for myself and he did n't like it . |
| 9 | I 'd been away after that before I came to the electricity works here . |
| 10 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 11 | I 'd been there for Harry and the arrow had by-passed my heart . |
| 12 | And I 'd been there from six in the morning till quarter to nine . |
| 13 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd been everywhere in books : I read a lot about exotic places . |
| 15 | ‘ Only that you could n't help the police very much because you 'd been away for a couple of days , ’ said Melissa . |
| 16 | ‘ You 'd been there for your holidays as a little boy ? |
| 17 | You got half an hour plus ten minutes relief for your refreshments and that would happen at ten in the morning and you 'd been there since seven . |
| 18 | If you 'd been quicker over the refining equipment — ‘ |
| 19 | I 'd seen no sign of Mala , but I had n't expected it , since she 'd been right about us being less obvious if we were apart . |
| 20 | It appeared that she 'd been right about Harry Martin 's being behind the attempts to intimidate her . |
| 21 | And she 'd been right about the red roses . |
| 22 | When she 'd been right round the edges of the roof and gathered all the flowers into a bunch , she climbed down the ladder and began to walk along the back path out of the village . |
| 23 | She 'd been here on Friday , and he had n't ! |
| 24 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 25 | She 'd been there at the time he 'd wanted a woman . |
| 26 | She 'd been there for less than two weeks when her employers discovered she has leukaemia . |
| 27 | and she poddled over , she said she 'd been across to Fernbury Lodge for the first time |
| 28 | She 'd been all over the Far East |
| 29 | I told him about my uncle after we 'd been together for six months and , though he was outraged , I persuaded him not to confront Joe or tell anyone . |
| 30 | ‘ We 'd been together for — since I was 17 . |