Example sentences of "[Wh adv] i 'd been " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
| 2 | I was just as mystified , but then , I could n't explain how I 'd been aware of her presence on our previous visit . |
| 3 | I can still see him sitting there at his desk , me standing in front , yelling at me how lucky I was , how I 'd been given everything , was this all I could do with it . |
| 4 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |
| 5 | ooh , when I told her how I 'd been treated |
| 6 | She described exactly how I 'd been feeling . |
| 7 | The water smelled dankly of mud and winter , which I had n't seemed to notice when I 'd been in it . |
| 8 | I tried to remember when I 'd been held like that before , and by whom . |
| 9 | I remember when I 'd been there only two weeks I almost got put on report for smoking in the avenue . |
| 10 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
| 11 | i found myself in the same place where I 'd been wounded in Easter , 1917 . |
| 12 | Honestly , girl , if you only knew where I 'd been to try and find you ! ’ |
| 13 | Irena produced a suit from somewhere — I had nothing appropriate to wear and the Czechs dress up to go out — and on a cold wet evening Miroslav , who once behind his bassoon could n't stop smiling , dragged me in off Red Army Square where I 'd been waiting under an umbrella watching a group of Czech soldiers trying to stand up , and escorted me up to the balcony of the Fucik Hall to watch the performance . |
| 14 | When I got home I told everybody where I 'd been and what I 'd done : my 63-year-old father , my three sisters , my nephews , my friends , the men and women in my local pub and my colleagues at the bank . |
| 15 | I did n't get difficult when I drank but I often could n't remember where I 'd been or what I 'd done or even how I 'd got back home . |
| 16 | And I did n't feel any more afraid , walking into the flats , than I would have felt walking on the road at night you know in in where I 'd been before . |
| 17 | Well he er he asked where I 'd been working and what could I do and and I was young then aye . |
| 18 | Reverend thought oh yes he 'd be very very glad of you , so he said I 'd be prepared to visit the sick , I 'd do anything like that and he did in fact start doing some visiting , and among other people that he called upon was a person living in Road , not very far really from where I 'd been born and I knew the area well . |
| 19 | ‘ I fancied a change of scene from London where I 'd been working with the Bank of England in-house catering team ’ she said . |
| 20 | You 're right , are n't you Yes , once he got going , I knew why I 'd been holding back . |
| 21 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 22 | but she sold her house in Jersey , her husband retires in July , the school break , and erm and she said I 've got some good , er when I got home from wherever I 'd been , Rudy left me a note to say phone Val good news and I thought it were her back was good news , but she said no me medical problems were not good news , they dare n't operate cos me back 's in such a state and they have n't give her much hope for anything apart from a wheelchair sort of thing , later on in life and erm , but she said that I 've got a bit of good news I 've sold me house so I said ooh lovely , so she said I do n't know any more but I ring you and let you know , the next night she phoned me back , she said yeah me house has gone they got two hundred and twenty thousand for it , they wanted them out a week on Thursday |