Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd [be] [vb pp] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Israeli Mossad would have confirmed that I 'd been killed in Damascus . |
| 2 | You 'd met my father and mother , you knew I 'd been raised in a very repressed , almost Victorian household . |
| 3 | The first thing that struck me was that of about 100 different offerings at least half a dozen times I 'd been stopped in my tracks by absolutely classic flavours . |
| 4 | I did put the landing light on , though , as I 'd been ambushed in the dark on those stairs before , barely escaping with my life . |
| 5 | ‘ If I 'd been trained in mind-reading rather than riot control , Dexter , I 'd tell you . ’ |
| 6 | At the end of my foundation year I 'd been voted in as Social Secretary , in charge of putting on all the shows there . |
| 7 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 8 | i found myself in the same place where I 'd been wounded in Easter , 1917 . |
| 9 | Long after I 'd been smothered in bed |
| 10 | Perhaps she had ; but there was nothing mad about the composed face I 'd been shown in the portrait and the photograph , only an infinity of patience . |
| 11 | I was surprised I 'd been let in at all , surprised that I 'd been able to wander freely about the second and first floors of the cold labyrinthian building of stairwells , escalators and concrete locker-lined corridors . |
| 12 | It was n't her real name and — like Horowitz — she 'd been born in Hungary . |
| 13 | Alina said she 'd been raised in the country . |
| 14 | She 'd been reserved in a way which suggested that she might be strong-willed but was making an effort to hide it or keep it in check . |
| 15 | If she 'd been stopped in a car with this level of alcohol in her , she would have lost her licence for a year at least and got a hefty fine . |
| 16 | Her words sliced through Shannon like burning arrows , but only a faint staining of her cheeks showed she 'd been affected in the slightest . |
| 17 | She was trapped , as helpless as if she 'd been bound in chains . |
| 18 | Lady Laetitia had forgotten all she 'd been taught in the morning and everything had to be rehearsed again . |
| 19 | The undeveloped film was found in her handbag after she 'd been shot in an ambush by Islamic fundamentalists , while on holiday in Egypt a month ago . |
| 20 | The fact that Margaret had been illegitimate , a war baby conceived between an Italian prisoner of war and an English landgirl , had no bearing on her name , although probably quite a lot to do with Margaret 's lack of maternalism , since she 'd been reared in a children 's home . |
| 21 | Zambia felt as if SHe 'd been punched in the gut . |
| 22 | She had a skullcracker of a headache , and guessed she 'd been opened in several places by knifecuts , branded in others by dollops of fire . |
| 23 | She 'd been married in that hat . |
| 24 | She felt as if she 'd been dipped in slime . |
| 25 | ‘ Thank you for all the help you gave to us and to Bob during the last few days of his illness — I only wish we 'd been put in touch with ACET sooner . |
| 26 | ‘ The Ministry would have been only too happy to hand you over stuffed and pickled if they 'd been asked in the proper way . |
| 27 | They 'd been separated in the fracas which followed their parachute descent into northern France , and she feared that Jeanne had been killed in the fighting . |
| 28 | I managed four , but they tasted like they 'd been pickled in piss . ’ |
| 29 | What did he care about getting rid of the Corn Laws either — which was what the whole argument had been about — since they 'd been created in the first place for the benefit of his land-owning friends ? |
| 30 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |