Example sentences of "but i 'd [be] " 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 . |