Example sentences of "'d be [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 'd been services in St Simon and St Jude 's every day this week . |
| 2 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 3 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
| 4 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 5 | All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley . |
| 6 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 7 | There was none to be seen in this small guest room , but there 'd been shelves of them lining two walls in the sitting-room overlooking the Thames . |
| 8 | In the past there 'd been cases of children who were witches . |
| 9 | Earlier there 'd been demonstrations at the Moat House hotel in the city where a conference was being held . |
| 10 | Earlier there 'd been demonstrations at the Moat House hotel in the city where a conference was being held . |
| 11 | There 'd been incidents of violence between gangland type er warfare between inmates . |
| 12 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 13 | Because th th th th there , there 'd been statements from Mao until the end of nineteen forty five where he 's still talking about land to the tiller being some way off |
| 14 | There 'd been months of preparation and delays because of the weather . |
| 15 | There 'd been photographs of these people 's faces in the newspapers , but Stephen had forgotten what the faces looked like . |
| 16 | Because there 'd been arguments about it earlier on in the century , had n't there ? |
| 17 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |