Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd be [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though I 'd visited the family in Al Ain and Abu Dhabi , it had been two years since I 'd been to their camp on the Gulf . |
| 2 | If I 'd been of your chosen few , |
| 3 | ‘ If I 'd been on my feet . |
| 4 | ‘ To be honest if I 'd been on my own I would n't have gone ahead with it , ’ says Avril . |
| 5 | much time if I , If I 'd been on my own . |
| 6 | And if I 'd been in his skin , and seen the power in Dawn 's beak and feet , I do n't think I 'd have done anything either . |
| 7 | ‘ If I 'd been in your shoes I 'd have walked right out on him . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm sure you 'd have done the same if you 'd been in my shoes . ’ |
| 9 | It was mid-evening , and she 'd been on her beat for about ten minutes , when an elderly , smartly-dressed man passed her . |
| 10 | Only two weeks later she 'd been on her way to Little Kirkton . |
| 11 | He 'd had this sickness all along , of course , but he 'd worsened since the assassin 's visit , and her tolerance for these traits , braced as she 'd been by her encounter with Gentle , had dropped to zero . |
| 12 | Was that how she would have felt if she 'd been in her position ? |
| 13 | She 'd been in his company for less than a minute , and already they were sparring . |
| 14 | So by the end of the day , we 'd met Sam , we knew her , we 'd been in her house , we 'd looked around her house . |
| 15 | We 'd been in our first house for just over five years , and I 'd served my d-i-y apprenticeship then , improving slightly as each room was restored and decorated . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'd been in my room — Ronny 'd gone out , he always does between shows . |
| 17 | He was beginning to get a bit homesick since they 'd stopped travelling and he 'd been on his own . |
| 18 | And he 'd been on our committee for I think it was about about three years was that right ? |
| 19 | No , it would n't have surprised me if he 'd been at his easel while I was painting the town red ! |
| 20 | Of their evening together , of how forthcoming he 'd been with his information . |
| 21 | Naylor Massingham had not been the easiest of people to deal with when he 'd been in her home ; how would she fare now that she was , so to speak , on his territory ? |
| 22 | He 'd been in his share of fistfights had Mr Fearon . |
| 23 | But he 'd been in his prime then , a match for any King Lud who 'd taken it into his weak head to break into the Dallam weaving sheds , in the dead of night , and start smashing his machines to bits . |
| 24 | He 'd been in his vigorous prime then , all right . |
| 25 | The Membership List revealed he 'd been in his present parish for six years , was unmarried , had written a book , The Railways of Norfolk , 1890 to 1940 , published by Jarrolds , and was , in addition to being Vicar of St Clements Bestwick , chaplain to the Sisters of St Sylvester , East Soken , near Diss . |