Example sentences of "'d [been] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I feel worn out , much more than I would if I 'd been for miles on the moor . |
| 2 | However , the London season was almost upon them and she was more cheerful than she 'd been for weeks . |
| 3 | Father and son exchanged looks , in better temper with each other than they 'd been for years . |
| 4 | They were both drunker than they 'd been for years . |
| 5 | He 'd been off drugs for six months when he died in that fire . ’ |
| 6 | Both Lady Amory and Sir John liked to get their hands in the soil — they did all the planting and arranging of the beds themselves — but they also had two willing helpers , gardeners who 'd been at Knightshayes for years , and some foresters . |
| 7 | I was eventually given my clothes back , but they were all muddy and damp because I 'd been on gardens . |
| 8 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |
| 9 | She 'd been on anti-depressants for the last 4 years since her husband walked out on her to live with another woman . |
| 10 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 11 | But he has got the sort of acidy sort of alcohol smell on his breath just like you 'd been on spirits all night or whatever , any sort of you know , wine and it 's not a beer sort of smell . |
| 12 | worse thinking he 'd been to solicitors but I 'm trying to track down anybody ! |
| 13 | Approaching Valletta at dusk , she 'd been below decks , in the act of unclipping her bikini-top , about to change clothes after a long lazy day sunbathing with Penny , Devlin at the helm . |
| 14 | She could almost smell the rich fermentation of silage like there 'd been around parts of Ecoville , or the green alkali of the air-plants . |
| 15 | If they 'd caught her , they 'd have stuck her in Imbrium or somewhere , some institution She 'd been in places like that before That was like death to her There must have been a lot of them caught like that , at the end , |
| 16 | ‘ I would n't have known you 'd been in computers . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The programme notes said you 'd been in Cats . ’ |