Example sentences of "'d [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You were so much older than me , you 'd been through broken relationships before and knew how to cope with them . |
| 2 | ‘ They 'd been to other schools and the standard is high ? |
| 3 | So as far as this meeting 's concerned , erm , most of our meetings are basically business meetings , but we , we have tried and we will try to put in speakers and , and do different things from time to time , we had er , er a woman last time who 'd been to Central America recently and she gave us a very interesting talk on a visit to El Salvador and Guatamala , erm , and we , we 'd like to do that more often , but , but what we do really erm , to begin with any rate , is we go th we go through the , the headings on this sheet , on the , on the minutes , we use them as headings for others and erm , items on the agenda and er some may have more to say than others and there are one or two not on there which we 'll pop in as we go along . |
| 4 | ‘ Because you 'd been to Nice . |
| 5 | And how did you know we 'd been to Nice ? ’ |
| 6 | Now she 'd done some training as a secretary — she 'd been to secretarial college . |
| 7 | They 'd been in terrible trouble when Matron discovered their secret , and each of them had promised never to do anything so wicked again . |
| 8 | If he 'd been in deep water he would n't have been damaged so much and neither would he have surfaced yet , perhaps not for several more days . |
| 9 | She 'd been in commercial radio for eleven months following nearly three years on a regional newspaper ; she reckoned to stick around this particular station for another two years at the most . |
| 10 | ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her . |