Example sentences of "'d just been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd just been made redundant , and none of the two of us are sleeping at night . |
| 2 | They probably thought , at that time of the afternoon , that I 'd just been made redundant . |
| 3 | ‘ I thought you 'd just been made a director of this firm ? ’ |
| 4 | They got the idea when Rex , who 'd just been made redundant , was talking to a friend of his who was also out of work . |
| 5 | From the bunk below him Rod Porter grunted and turned over , as if to resume the peaceful sleep from which he 'd just been disturbed . |
| 6 | ‘ Why ? ’ she demanded , finally deciding that she 'd just been insulted . |
| 7 | Rupert , who 'd just been appointed Tory Minister for Sport , eyed Mrs Sherwood back . |
| 8 | and er just at the very end all you could see was her and your man , the hologram and he 'd just been killed about five minutes earlier . |
| 9 | Still it was hard when she 'd just been asked to blow up an orbiting city with almost a million inhabitants . |
| 10 | We 'd just been given leave after the fiasco of Operation Eagle Claw , the so-called attempt to rescue the American hostages from our embassy in Teheran back in 1980 . |
| 11 | He drank , and then began to think how he could use the information he 'd just been given . |
| 12 | I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’ |
| 13 | To judge by your face , you 'd have thought I 'd just been sentenced to hang , not thrown a lifeline . ’ |
| 14 | Well , I 'd just been paid , so there was no problems about me having money to score , so I think I 'd just set me mind that I wanted to sort meself out once and for good . |
| 15 | They 'd just been told the George Hotel was n't important enough to be listed , but the protestors vowed to physically stop the demolition team if necessary and it looked as if they had the backing of the Planning Authority . |
| 16 | His insults had been no less cutting than the American 's , they 'd just been delivered with more urbanity . |
| 17 | She looked small , frail , and feeble ; her face was dazed and vacant , as if she 'd just been woken up and could n't quite remember where she was . |
| 18 | Well I 'm gla glad she 's getting something done about it now cos you and she 'd just been left , sh er , had n't been persuaded she 'd have just let it go on and on and on would n't |
| 19 | By nine , the playroom was like something censored out of Gremlins , and I spent most of the morning as a cross between Mummy Bear and Mister Wolf I 'd just been pinned to the floor , it was like an insane asylum in Lilliput , when buti Sikita beckoned me to the phone . |
| 20 | Along the top of the ridge near the ski-lift station where they 'd just been assembled and accoutred , forty of fifty unwilling looking soldiers were strung out in a line attempting to obey orders and words of command from Non-Commissioned Officers who had sensibly omitted to incommode themselves with skis . |
| 21 | He 'd just been shown in by a messenger , and the moment the uniformed official had withdrawn , had expressed surprise and displeasure at finding her to be his interviewer . |
| 22 | I met R. D. Case afterwards — he was on the Westminster Gazette at that time — and he told me that Stanford was so drunk that he 'd almost fallen into the gravel Apparently he 'd just been caught in time by George Watson-Forbes , who later wrote a remarkable series of articles in the Daily News on the Home Rule question . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ The look on your face was like a naughty schoolgirl who 'd just been caught with a stolen pie . |
| 24 | She was n't sure which would have been worse — open , lustful leering , or the teasing mockery she 'd just been subjected to . |
| 25 | Then drew back quickly , as if she 'd just been burned . |
| 26 | somebody came to settle up bang and he was playing thinking he 'd just been wounded and in fact he 'd been shot and killed , poor chap |
| 27 | When Creed called , Jed was watching a news report about a vulture who 'd just been arrested on a murder charge . |