Example sentences of "[pers pn] '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 | Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | well they were having a biology lesson , she 'd been all about these , they 'd been this biology |
| 12 | Not that you 'd know they 'd been most days . |
| 13 | and then erm , we drove , er then we walked through this park , which was lovely , it had squirrels running all round the place and pigeons and everything , it was gorgeous , and , and because it , it 'd been such a gorgeous day , it 's just that my fucking nose is cold . |
| 14 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 15 | Pulling the tabs on the thermal cans to heat up the food , she glanced over at him but he was exactly as he 'd been all day , close yet remote , unreachable . |
| 16 | This is his final total after he 'd been all the way round St Aldate 's , he went round 73 houses , and he says here , I think this is a sort of hieroglyphic that would probably mean something like 'item' . |
| 17 | Seeing as he 'd been such a pain , I was a little slow going to his rescue . |
| 18 | He 'd been some kind of engineer . |
| 19 | When the boy had first come to the house he 'd been more of a child and had naturally been treated as a child . |