Example sentences of "[conj] i 'd be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tumbled out of the nest , where I 'd been a cosseted only child , and into digs . |
| 2 | I 'm sure you did n't order Lee and his men to find out where I 'd been and who I had seen . |
| 3 | I got up , walked backwards towards the nearest dune , threw the can way high over the top of it , then came back , lay down where I 'd been sitting earlier , and closed my eyes . |
| 4 | I 'd finished my foundation year earlier that summer and , although I 'd been offered a fulltime place — and grant — to do my Fine Art degree in painting , I blew it out . |
| 5 | And went on telling him odiously about me ( one Saturday morning shopping in the Village ) and I did n't know where to look , although I 'd been wanting to meet him . |
| 6 | I could not believe that I 'd been so stupid , or that such a simple mistake was about to have such dire consequences . |
| 7 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 8 | Big Lou came out with a story that I 'd been fired — but I resigned . ’ |
| 9 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 10 | I was flattered that I 'd been chosen , but at the same time pretty scared . |
| 11 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 12 | There crawled into my mind one nasty little question that I 'd been fighting off till now . |
| 13 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
| 14 | But what should I do now that I 'd been told about Belinda 's feelings ? |
| 15 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 18 | Before that I 'd been happy to think of him vaguely in terms of Sartre , de Beauvoir , Paris , existentialism , absurdity … |
| 19 | I was surprised I 'd been let in at all , surprised that I 'd been able to wander freely about the second and first floors of the cold labyrinthian building of stairwells , escalators and concrete locker-lined corridors . |
| 20 | For instance , it 's perfectly obvious that what I was trying to do for my clients was patch up their lives and their relationships in a way that I 'd been unable to do for my parents . |
| 21 | The Israeli Mossad would have confirmed that I 'd been killed in Damascus . |
| 22 | It was going to help me , with what I had in mind , the fact that I 'd been able to wise him up on that . |
| 23 | That I 'd been abused by my brother too . |
| 24 | Nobody seemed to accept that I 'd been in charge of my own body and my own medication for the best part of my life ; they seemed to think that was a very strange idea . |
| 25 | That was quite nice , to see somebody that I 'd been in prison with and still be able to sit down and talk the same old way . |
| 26 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 27 | Mind you in between that I 'd been working on the fa farm farm . |
| 28 | When I came back to England I was very humbled really to erm because I arrived in Nepal three hours before that crash and erm a lot of people had thought I 'd died in that crash and erm the patients had thought I 'd died as well and they had to put a big notice outside to say that I 'd been alright , they had lots of people ringing up . |
| 29 | Capron said it had come to his attention that I 'd been meeting you and that it had to stop . ’ |
| 30 | I 'd been excited about Brownies for so long that I 'd been warned about wishing my life away nearly a hundred times by the week of my first Pack meeting . |