Example sentences of "[pron] 'd been on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been on duty in the Met Office since 8am , and managed to comb my hair and put on some lipstick before going straight down to the dance with June , one of the other Met Waafs . |
| 2 | ‘ If I 'd been on my feet . |
| 3 | ‘ To be honest if I 'd been on my own I would n't have gone ahead with it , ’ says Avril . |
| 4 | I think a lot of it was severe stress and exhaustion : I was 27 years old and I 'd been on the road for about ten years of my life and that band was just so much bigger in people 's minds than it was in reality . |
| 5 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 6 | it was , it was actually there was a programme on television and my husband took me to the doctor and he said he felt I 'd been on it too long , I 'd been on it about six months and when I come off it , I come off it pretty quick and I ended up erm I did n't know what was wrong with me and it ended up I 've now got epilepsy , and they did n't know if it was caused through erm I took a stroke about three four month after that and then I got the epilepsy as well , so they do n't know if that me coming off it |
| 7 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 8 | And I wished then I 'd been on the farm , I might tell you ! |
| 9 | I 'd been on one of these trips before and the weather had been brilliant . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , I 'd been on the boat a few minutes when I heard someone pounding along the gangway and going ashore , so I knew I 'd been right . ’ |
| 11 | I mean , I did get work at his mill in the summer of ‘ forty I 'd been on t'dole for four years , since I left school — but he went into the RAF not long after , and I did n't see him again till late ‘ forty-six . |
| 12 | Well I 'd been on the Menai Suspension Bridge before . |
| 13 | Yes that 's how that 's how it was , yes all I was on that gate , I 'd been on that gate myself dozens of times . |
| 14 | And when she 'd driven Billy , a pimply second-year , up to my hall of residence at the start of his fourth or fifth term , I 'd been on hand to help them unload her Mercedes estate car . |
| 15 | I was suicidal , one day I 'd been on top of the world |
| 16 | much time if I , If I 'd been on my own . |
| 17 | Or if you 'd been on holiday . ’ |
| 18 | If you 'd been on Bupa . |
| 19 | But he has got the sort of acidy sort of alcohol smell on his breath just like you 'd been on spirits all night or whatever , any sort of you know , wine and it 's not a beer sort of smell . |
| 20 | She 'd been on anti-depressants for the last 4 years since her husband walked out on her to live with another woman . |
| 21 | She 'd been on the floor for nearly every dance , and was having a whale of a time . |
| 22 | If she 'd been on 4AD , she 'd be given the same amount of attention as the Muses , Pixies or Breeders . |
| 23 | ‘ I brought in the Readers ' Digests , ’ she muttered , unable to apply the brakes when she 'd been on such a powerful roll . |
| 24 | Yet Jezrael knew he 'd been one of them for longer than she 'd been on Mars . |
| 25 | It was mid-evening , and she 'd been on her beat for about ten minutes , when an elderly , smartly-dressed man passed her . |
| 26 | She did n't remember anything like this the last time she 'd been on Earth . |
| 27 | Only two weeks later she 'd been on her way to Little Kirkton . |
| 28 | For a moment she 'd been on the verge of telling Penny why she was in such a hurry , but the moment passed , and she was glad she had n't given in to the impulse . |
| 29 | Just a fortnight earlier , she 'd been on a course called Heart Start , which taught her the basics of resuscitation . |
| 30 | I think it was just the thought that she 'd been on it you know , and a nice bit of heat and everything , relaxing . |