Example sentences of "'d been [vb pp] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , you know Louise , she erm , was two pounds overdrawn , erm , for about a day , she was sent a letter to say that she 'd been charged twenty pounds for the letter , |
| 2 | Like the other women , I 'd recently left my own home because I could n't carry on there any longer and I 'd been given safe spaces by friends with room to spare . |
| 3 | ‘ He 'd been gone several days before Trueman did it . |
| 4 | They 'd been shot 21 times . |
| 5 | He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh . |
| 6 | The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so . |
| 7 | Even from this distance it was clear he 'd been hit several times in the chest and there was also red paint all over his visor . |
| 8 | He 'd been told various stories that had supplied small but interesting details about Mandru 's personality and private life . |
| 9 | One lady , he claimed , almost lost her marbles when the word she picked out of the hat was the same as the one she 'd been handed 27,000 feet up a Himalayan mountain in her backpack and bivouac , far-out , cool-man days . |
| 10 | She was cold , tired and aching ; her bed had n't been thick enough , and she 'd been wakened several times by sheep trying to share it , or eat it . |
| 11 | They 'd been re-used many times , titles and references and hasty notes making it difficult to see any sign of what the current contents might be . |