Example sentences of "'d be [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I moved from Nazeing into Harlow because my house was condemned at Nazeing and I had to come into a Council house at , and erm , from I had erm , when I came from Nazeing I had erm , three sons three sons then and when I got to , I 'd been here a year and then I had another son and after that er , when he was about two years and four months I had a daughter , but unfortunately I lost her with heart trouble and er she only lived four months and I lost her and er , er I stayed there , stayed there and , in and after that I moved to because it was a bit larger house for my family you see and from erm I was there several years and er stayed there and I had erm oh first of all I , I had my twins , my twin boys after I lost the daughter , I had twin boys and they , I went to I suppose about two years and four months between and I wanted to adopt a little girl but they would n't let , my hubby said no and so then I er , sort of see if I get a little girl and I had twin boys did n't I , and I 'm still in , I 'm in and after er after I had the twins when I was about er forty two if I did had another boy which is the one I 've got , the last one up there of my eight , I ended up with eight boys |
| 2 | I believe that when the French were here , a man could enlist with the forces and still claim paternity for children born during his absence , even if he 'd been away a couple of years . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I only took a quick look , he 'd been dead a long time , it was n't nice , and yet — it looked like Uncle Mosse . ’ |
| 4 | And yet there was the suggestion that he 'd been just a little unlucky , perhaps ? |
| 5 | He remembered his sporadic visits back to Taler 's Bump , the shy little girl who 'd been virtually a stranger to him , his awkward attempts at being a family man when all the time he 'd only been yearning to get back to work . |
| 6 | He 'd been there a week when violence flared around his squad of green and frightened youngsters . |
| 7 | He told me proudly how he 'd been there a few times in the past . |
| 8 | I 'd been there a few months when me and a girl called Sue and a girl called Monica started playing silly devils , throwing things out of the hatch . |
| 9 | After I 'd been there a few months I was asked if I wanted to help out in the kitchen , which I did . |
| 10 | And when I came ashore — I 'd been there a week — he gave me ten bob . |
| 11 | before I realized that all you had to do was put your hand through my letter box , reach up and you could take , open the Yale lock because I 'd been there a year I locked myself out and I thought the only thing I can do is try and get in by putting my hand through . |
| 12 | And wheeling them to the ship you know , then after you 'd been there a long time , well my father was a down below and I went to his shop then you see . |
| 13 | No it was during the conversation he er he said that I hear that you went to flat and I said yes and he said er well you just missed me , I 'd been there a couple of days before . |
| 14 | One of our friends that we 'd met were there , they 'd been there a couple of weeks |
| 15 | He looked as if he 'd been home a while . |
| 16 | She 'd given him no encouragement — their encounters had been on a light , friendly basis only — but she knew that he 'd long since stopped seeing Louise , and there 'd been only a couple of short-term girlfriends since . |
| 17 | At this end of the village the night had been quiet , but in the Untouchable quarter to the west , there 'd been quite a kerfuffle . |
| 18 | And there 'd been quite a number there , obviously in that burns unit , who were suffering from the same type of er injury . |
| 19 | She had not had as many men as Karen gave her credit for , there was an element of blarney in all that , but there 'd been quite a number , had n't there ? |