Example sentences of "but [pers pn] 'd been " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I 'd been interested in old houses long before that . ’ |
| 2 | I wished I 'd been able to take a photograph of gaunt-face , but I 'd been more keen to listen . |
| 3 | ‘ But I 'd been out with friends for the evening and got home late . |
| 4 | I think I got that because of my tracheotomy — I think I probably should have gotten it before , but I 'd been a bad girl . |
| 5 | I did n't know what to say , but I 'd been reading about mating in a book only a few days before , so I kept a perfectly straight face and replied . |
| 6 | Sitting in the rear , maybe it had felt worse , but I 'd been petrified . |
| 7 | But I 'd been working nights to live on . |
| 8 | I knew that from when I 'd gone to watch them play in the past , but I 'd been cured of insomnia for some time now . |
| 9 | But I 'd been careful for a long time before that , because I 'd sensed something . |
| 10 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 11 | ‘ But I 'd been home for two hours when Silvia got back . |
| 12 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 13 | I do n't , I ca n't remember now who it was from but I 'd been er picked out and given a valuable prize . |
| 14 | Yes , but you 'd been to the flat at about ten thirty in the evening before was there anything you heard or seen at the flat to indicate it might be a hostage situation ? |
| 15 | They had advised her to have the baby adopted , told her she 'd not be able to earn a living for them both , but she 'd been willful and gone her own way . |
| 16 | By Christmas her child would be several weeks old , but she 'd been forced to survive on her wits since before her ma had died , and she would survive now . |
| 17 | I did n't understand what ‘ interest ’ was but she 'd been kind to me and I thought she would be kind to others and help them . |
| 18 | Edouard said he 'd been obliged to keep an elderly English woman there for a few days , but she 'd been slipping out . ’ |
| 19 | Lisa did vaguely remember , now that Kerry mentioned it , but she 'd been so absorbed in what she was doing at the time that she had n't really paid a great deal of attention . |
| 20 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 21 | It was n't IMP 's fault , or hers , that he had started at Jerez in third position , but she 'd been a convenient whipping-boy for his suspicions . |
| 22 | She guarded her secret carefully , terrified she was going to suffer from morning sickness , which might give the game away to her mother , but she 'd been lucky . |
| 23 | But she 'd been smoking too much , as well . |
| 24 | He had been sceptical at the time , but she 'd been quite right , for he had suddenly understood the story . |
| 25 | But she 'd been far too immersed in her studies , and had also been far too proud and fastidious , to experiment sexually with any of her contemporaries . |
| 26 | But , on getting her act together later the next day , Laura had been appalled to discover that not only had Ross already left for Australia — but she 'd been given a small attic room next to the children 's nursery . |
| 27 | Low blood-pressure had been an unexpected side-effect of the glandular fever , but she 'd been sure she 'd come through all that . |
| 28 | Her own business needed her attention , but she 'd been in touch with her manager , and everything was under control . |
| 29 | She told the RSPCA that the animals in question were due to be moved to better grazing but she 'd been too busy to do it . |
| 30 | When they formed the Army Education Corp , during the war , they er , they wore uniform , most of them were warrant officers , and soldiers but in uniform you could come out I mean , they been ordinary soldiers , but they 'd been put put on a charge every time the saw them , you know . |