Example sentences of "[verb] i 'd [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are about fourteen roads , streets , crescents , avenues , walks , and squares all called whatever it was you told James , and I visited number fifteen in all of them before I realized I 'd been had . |
| 2 | ‘ Everyone would think I 'd been messing around ! |
| 3 | You would n't think I 'd been complimented on them , would you , but when I 'appened to show them accidental to a gentleman once , he said I ought to go on the stage and wear tights and a little frou-frou skirt — here , where you goin' ? ’ |
| 4 | I just privately discharged myself and let the Americans think I 'd been here all along . ’ |
| 5 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 6 | But I realised I 'd been a bit heavy . |
| 7 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ I was bleeding and realised I 'd been hit . ’ |
| 9 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |
| 10 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 11 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 12 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 13 | ‘ How did you know I 'd been put on probation ? ’ |
| 14 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 15 | Mind you I 'd I 'd been running er ru running the tail route , that 's another route as you meet on er goes onto a gate on the left hand side where you got wagons about eight wagons , put it put them back , fasten this rope at the back . |
| 16 | There certainly was n't in mine because I 'd I 'd been sacked . |
| 17 | You know I 'd been |
| 18 | After seeing the picture of Scafell Massif taken in evening sunshine from the summit of Yewbarrow , I could n't help wishing I 'd been there . |
| 19 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 20 | He thanked me too , saying I 'd been very fair and was paying him royally , but then he added , in that high-pitched voice of his : ‘ One thing though . |
| 21 | Accused of being insolent , the private may say : ‘ No I was n't , sergeant , I was just saying I 'd been cleaning my boots . ’ |
| 22 | Yeah he 's a very you know it 's funny I know it 's the worst time to do a phone in actually because people are doing other oh I 've got me foot caught in the whatsit but erm I thought I thought we 'd get loads of people on saying I 'd been very rude saying that this was er er er nation of animal haters and abusers . |
| 23 | I know it 's my fault she 's here , I suppose in a few years time I 'll wish I 'd been here , but now I want to be out enjoying myself . |
| 24 | But then that funny copper , Malpass , had known I 'd been out front on Sunday . |
| 25 | Some of the theories would have made Balzac blush , but they finally decided I 'd been sleeping with Laura , her husband had beaten me up in a dark alley , and now I was on my way to kill him . |
| 26 | ‘ Suppose I 'd been having the breakdown . |
| 27 | Yes , we have , mm , but I suppose I 'd been because I do n't want the bother of , yes . |
| 28 | It was a relief to get a flight the next morning , yet I felt I 'd been dragged away from Dominica : I had not explored its dangerous magic as I ought to have done . |
| 29 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 30 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |