Example sentences of "'d be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 32 | I suggested that help might come from friends who 'd been through the same scenario , or from genuinely sympathetic relatives ( but not critical ones ! ) . |
| 33 | You were so much older than me , you 'd been through broken relationships before and knew how to cope with them . |
| 34 | ‘ Knowing what I 'd been through ? |
| 35 | Back in 1988 though , none of the above was known to this actress , who fancied herself as a serious artist who 'd been through the portals of the National and the RSC , albeit coming quickly out the other side , and whose biggest ambition was a ) to perfect a stage yawn , b ) to trim her inner thighs , and c ) to fry a perfect fishball . |
| 36 | I 'd been through so many rehearsals of this moment in London . |
| 37 | I ferried and drove to Great Neck one weekend to see Maggie , an old friend from the Sixties , who 'd been through three husbands and several transformations since we 'd first been King 's Road freaks together . |
| 38 | Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening . |
| 39 | Yeah er cover was the one that , after we 'd been through the document , I did find of be of particular interest |
| 40 | How could I tell her the truth , after all she 'd been through ? ’ |
| 41 | Rachel suddenly felt she 'd been through an emotional wringer . |
| 42 | and erm I was feeling ill at the time and I , I wondered why because he 'd been through so much suffering , you know , it was a happy release . |
| 43 | She 'd been through so much with an alcoholic daughter , unemployed husband and dyslexic son . |
| 44 | he said he 'd been through recently , oh every time I 've been through Wolverhampton that ring road 's been awful the traffic like |
| 45 | I would have discovered once I 'd been through it all . |
| 46 | It was an ignoble , unworthy thought , he knew , but he was — now , anyway — only human , and therefore prey to human weaknesses , whatever sort of superhuman he 'd been during the War . |
| 47 | He 'd been off having fun too much . |
| 48 | He 'd been off drugs for six months when he died in that fire . ’ |
| 49 | Yeah and I said to her erm , and she said I do n't know how it came out about her son in the fire service , oh I know she 'd just come back from Orlando , cos she 'd been off work having had a hysterectomy and she had three week 's leave due to her |
| 50 | But it was because I 'd been at St. Martin 's that we got that first gig . |
| 51 | Captain 'd been at Combe Court for ages and ages I think , cos he knew everyone , even the very poorly ones like Glenda . |
| 52 | No , it would n't have surprised me if he 'd been at his easel while I was painting the town red ! |
| 53 | I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most . |
| 54 | This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture . |
| 55 | She 'd been at it since tea-time , since lunch , since she got up . |
| 56 | This was the middle of an argument they 'd been at home . |
| 57 | Helen did n't help herself or increase the possibility of peace on earth by saying she 'd been at Dad 's Chislehurst gig . |
| 58 | If he did n't understand something , he was reluctant to stand up and ask , instead he 'd worry it out himself , sometimes I reckoned he 'd been at it all night . |
| 59 | ‘ Well , I just thought he 'd been at the whisky even more than usual , and ignored him . |
| 60 | I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it . |