Example sentences of "as [pron] 'd [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 3 | They wanted their own announcer , a local girl , not one from London , and as I 'd been presenting it on radio since I was 13 , they asked me to try my hand on television . |
| 4 | I did n't have a big name in the business as I 'd been concentrating just on working , so I was n't a star and could n't force through any changes . |
| 5 | Sylvia landed with her knees bent , and rolled over as she 'd been taught . |
| 6 | It must have been in that one moment of darkness , as she 'd been taking her hand away . |
| 7 | As long as she 'd been fighting him there had still been a hope that she might eventually emerge the victor . |
| 8 | She was going to be left in the care of a woman she did n't know , just as she 'd been left with them before . |
| 9 | She selected the first three pages — Lucy as she 'd been allowed to see her , and handed them over . |
| 10 | Certainly Terry , Brian and I knew that close friends had been campaigning for us and that that experience could have changed them , just as we 'd been changed by what we had gone through . |
| 11 | It was an absolute disgrace , it really was a disgrace , and so as we 'd been informed by somebody at , now do n't ask me who cos I do n't know , but from one of the public meetings we held , er they said you can phone up any time and you y the rubbish would be collected . |
| 12 | so as he 'd been trying to get through it was always engaged . |
| 13 | And the lock did n't turn as he 'd been expecting it to — |
| 14 | He kept moving all the time , on his toes with his weight perfectly balanced , just as he 'd been taught , down at the gymnasium , every Saturday and every Wednesday for the past five years , times when everyone thought he was busy doing something else . |
| 15 | Rory had always thought of Hamish as a sort of ponderously eccentric fool , and Ken a kind of failure because he had so much wanted to travel , and instead had settled down with Mary , stayed in the same wee corner of the world as he 'd been born and raised in , and not only raised his own children , but chosen to teach others ' , too . |
| 16 | He 'd spent most of the evening wrestling with the one fragment that he 'd managed to retain , picked out of the air behind him as he 'd been standing at the cooker watching his soup boil . |
| 17 | Shortly after his death , I was working a ‘ noon and night ’ at a local Working Men 's Club when the top of the bill — a Welsh comic called Dave Swan — was unable to do the evening performance , as he 'd been taken ill . |
| 18 | Sam was n't privileged to meet them either as he 'd been set to work whitewashing the Barracks , which they never got around to inspecting . |
| 19 | He could n't speak Arabic , as he 'd been brought up in Zanzibar . |
| 20 | Because he was just doing the same job as he 'd been doing under the private under the L N E R. Management were more conciliatory when nationalization came on . |