Example sentences of "'d [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 31 | Christ , I 'd only been in the hospital for about ten minutes before I snuffed it ! ’ |
| 32 | They lifted their heads from the stones and squinted , as if they 'd only been half aware of interlopers . |
| 33 | Glancing at the clock on the wall now , Rory realised to her amazement that he 'd only been in the farmhouse for three hours . |
| 34 | She 'd only been at school 2 months and she was found to be blind . |
| 35 | They 'd only been beaten 3 times this season so you feared the worst , but it was Oxford who struck next ; another no goal , or no penalty , according to Kevin Keegan . |
| 36 | Inspector , but anyhow , now when I went on the detective staff I 'd only been on the force just over three years |
| 37 | Well then while I was serving as a detective , you can just imagine I made plenty of arrests , and I got along reasonably well with most people , but there was one man I hated yes I hated him , I , I 'd only been a detective I should think for a period of about , oh five or six months , and a man , he called on the Reverend who was the , the vicar of St. Mary where |
| 38 | He 'd only been back there about three or four weeks and they conscrip conscripted him . |
| 39 | first time I ever one , was old Freddie and I 'd , I 'd only been to depot . |
| 40 | No , they was living together they 'd only been living there a fortnight ! |
| 41 | if I 'd only been there when he died , I 'd of hold his hands , blah , blah , oh God , poor lass |
| 42 | For she 'd literally been shaken to her roots when the clothing firm she 'd worked for for the past six and a half years had collapsed , making the entire work-force redundant . |
| 43 | For the past week she 'd literally been counting the days . |
| 44 | She 'd obviously been counting on me having one , because the chillim was poised at her lips , ready for her to pull in deeply when the surface leaves caught fire . |
| 45 | They 'd obviously been badly infected at some time . |
| 46 | With another sigh , and feeling extremely awkward because she 'd obviously been foisted on them when they had n't wanted her to be foisted , she decided not to unpack , just take out the things she would need for the night . |
| 47 | She 'd obviously been confused and had things on her mind . |
| 48 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 49 | That were in the freezer and they 'd obviously been in there for a bit too long . |
| 50 | he 'd obviously been talking about , erm |
| 51 | And on such flimsy grounds she 'd apparently been tried and sentenced . |
| 52 | They 'd apparently been smothered . |
| 53 | They 'd apparently been suffocated . |
| 54 | There 'd apparently been a Friday night meeting though the chairman had gone to New Zealand the day before at which new directors had been appointed . |
| 55 | They gave me a bad time — they 'd all been in since they were seventeen and they were hard men . |
| 56 | About how Mr Harker was going out of business , which was why they 'd all been pushed harder than ever the last few weeks . |
| 57 | We 'd all been listening to things like reggae and Spanish music , and when we got together to rehearse , we 'd be playing all kinds of crazy stuff before we settled down to get serious . ’ |
| 58 | Actress Susan Hampshire added : ‘ It 's something that we 'd all been led to expect . ’ |
| 59 | They 'd all been amusing enough , in their way . |
| 60 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |