Example sentences of "'d been [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ At your age , I 'd been married five years . |
| 2 | She said : ‘ I 'm very sad because we 'd been married 20 years . |
| 3 | We 'd been married ten years , that 's always supposed to be a bad time . |
| 4 | She 'd been convinced all along that eventually she must lose him , that Marianne was right — some other attraction must inevitably draw him away . |
| 5 | it was in here it was sort of like , he 'd been niggly all day , he was tired , he sort of like knocked it over with his foot , and of course it went straight over the dry nappy that was laid out on the floor ready to put under him , I said oh that nappy |
| 6 | Lord , she 'd been awake ten minutes and already they were at each other 's throats ! |
| 7 | Unless he 'd been asleep all the time ? |
| 8 | Simon was convinced , or persuaded himself , that he 'd been ill used by Constanza , that their marriage had been a mistake , a youthful mistake , the kind of thing one did in a war . |
| 9 | Well then th they must have been she said they 'd been concerned all day . |
| 10 | But then , she 'd been lonely all her life . |
| 11 | And she 'd been blind positive he 'd ask her out . |