Example sentences of "[vb past] 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 | But I realised I 'd been a bit heavy . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I was bleeding and realised I 'd been hit . ’ |
| 5 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | There certainly was n't in mine because I 'd I 'd been sacked . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | After that row with my father , I felt I 'd been turned down by them all . |
| 14 | I knew I 'd been dreaming again ( or whatever we call it ) because , when I came out of it , the wooden post — that old pile I 'd clung to like a drowning man — was nowhere ! |
| 15 | And yes , he knew I 'd been hit . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | You 'd met my father and mother , you knew I 'd been raised in a very repressed , almost Victorian household . |
| 18 | It was so clear that I knew I 'd been blind . |
| 19 | She no doubt thought I 'd been out in the sun too long . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 21 | At first I thought I 'd been commissioned to rewrite The Archers theme . |
| 22 | co-ordinates up , erm , you know , I have n't yet had contact from er no , I thought I 'd been given a new name , but , no I have n't had con any contact from my new co-ordinator yet , erm , but that was n't in my mind when I spoke on Thursday about Christmas , perhaps I ought to pursue that one in time for the next meeting and see what 's happening in South Africa and are getting it in South America for . |
| 23 | I could n't see anything , and I thought I 'd been stung by ants , but the knee became swollen and blistered and then I noticed tracks like blisters crawling up my leg from my knee , and over the course of months they went crawling up and up and round my leg — terrifying ! |
| 24 | I thought I 'd been framed . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ I suppose you thought I 'd been to school : |
| 26 | ‘ Because you thought I 'd been cross-examining him about you ? ’ |
| 27 | You know , he thought I 'd been telling him a lie . |
| 28 | I , I had this dream the other night , and it was so real , I thought I 'd been to the cinema . |
| 29 | I suddenly remembered I 'd been intending to call Connors in any case . |
| 30 | My mother had a fit when I went home and my aunt said I 'd been taken on . |