Example sentences of "'d been [adv] [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.

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1 She 'd been here four days and it was high time she wrote to him .
2 Only two or three of the terminals were occupied , by guys who looked as if they 'd been up all night and who were already on to their second pack of cigarettes .
3 She 'd been there two days and was running out of money .
4 Yeah , when I started in nineteen thirty one and in those days you got a rise every six months and I got a one and three rise after they 'd been there six months and at the year I was earning seventeen and six .
5 I 'd been out all day and was ravenous , but the strange woman made me nervous of settling down to eat .
6 So we 'd had a we 'd been out all night and all day and achieved nothing but it was , course it was exercises .
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