Example sentences of "[pron] 'd [been] [det] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’
2 I do n't know what I 'd have done if you 'd been any later — the girls are getting terribly impatient . ’
3 Miss Evans moved from the sink where she 'd been all this time , standing quite still , and started to clear the plates from the table .
4 She was sitting calmly in bed like that 's where she 'd been all the time .
5 well they were having a biology lesson , she 'd been all about these , they 'd been this biology
6 She 'd been such an idiot , had n't she ?
7 If she 'd been more of a woman , he believed , she would have meekly accepted his word and left it at that .
8 And of course it would n't if we 'd been more accurately given the address , but
9 So that 's why there 'd been that electric air of haste pervading the whole episode .
10 There 'd been some trouble up there between the Catholics and the Protestants and we were ordered to put a line across the road and were ordered to take out our truncheons .
11 There 'd been some snow , and erm er he was n't well , and could I if I cared I could look for a work elsewhere , as i it was just impossible for him to pay wages , you see ?
12 ‘ Dave rang me , see , and he said there 'd been some blokes asking around about me and he did n't think they were coppers at all , and I thought well , that could be The Firm —
13 Perhaps there 'd been some trouble — some kind of scene he wanted to warn her about .
14 There 'd been some trouble at The Randolph .
15 If there 'd been any more trouble , we would just have drawn our staffs and knocked all hell out of them .
16 Keir enquired whether there 'd been any other media interest in MVTR .
17 Listen , if there 'd been any fruit around I 'd have eaten it .
18 This was the first time they 'd been out together since the alleged phone-calls , and if there 'd been any more since then she had n't mentioned it .
19 If there 'd been any evidence to link the death to anyone connected with the Jonquil the police would have found it by now .
20 Tell him that if there 'd been any chemistry between us at all , I would have married you years ago and if he had any bloody sense he 'd do it now — in fact , forget it , I 'll tell him myself . ’
21 Yeah , could of been if there 'd been any Romans in Italy .
22 No , not at all , no I if there 'd been any doubt then I would n't have played , but erm no doubt at all .
23 Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ?
24 And there 'd been this picture of a human lying down , with what looked like nomes tying it up with hundreds of ropes .
25 ‘ If only there 'd been more time , ’ said Kelly , ‘ I 'd have tried to help her work out a clear-cut characterisation , but we had a tight schedule and I left it up to her . ’
26 In those days too , there 'd been another festival a month or so later , called ban chho āi , the leaving of the forest .
27 There 'd been another quake at 4am , a 6.5 shock .
28 Like us , he reckoned that there 'd been another man there .
29 Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night .
30 But if it 's just been brought out of the calf pens , fresh muck when it 's been spreaded in , and you know that tummy muscles , along mucking out the calf pens , they 'd been all the winter on this , getting tighter and harder , all through the winter .
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