Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] i 'd [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nobody seemed to accept that I 'd been in charge of my own body and my own medication for the best part of my life ; they seemed to think that was a very strange idea . |
| 2 | no , I forgot well see I forgotten and I 'd been down to Boots an all I , aunty Mary had them once , one time and said |
| 3 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 4 | You see , I did n't dare make a scene as I should have done if I 'd been married . |
| 5 | I could not believe that I 'd been so stupid , or that such a simple mistake was about to have such dire consequences . |
| 6 | Two kids I 'd got when I 'd been married as long as Hatton . |
| 7 | Only to wish that I 'd been born a boy . ’ |
| 8 | I was surprised I 'd been let in at all , surprised that I 'd been able to wander freely about the second and first floors of the cold labyrinthian building of stairwells , escalators and concrete locker-lined corridors . |
| 9 | I had , I had a letter the other day saying that I 'd been paying thirty nine pounds , fifty a week to live on , but I 've been entitled to fifty five pound something for low income support so are they gon na backdate all that and then get their |
| 10 | On the handshake it was only when I got notified that I 'd been awarded the gold badge , I realized I never got my hand back that day . |
| 11 | I suppose if I 'd been a few years older , I would have replied , ‘ Is n't that the only way to treat it ? ’ |
| 12 | The Emissary 's Illusochamber had also been free of bugging devices as I 'd found when I 'd been fiddling with my headband , activating a mini-ceptor in one of the jewels . |
| 13 | And I must admit once I 'd been I 'd , early on when I did n't know an awful lot , then , yeah , but , later on when I had been more experienced there was n't , there was very little difference between how I treated people whether they made a fuss or not . |
| 14 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 15 | I felt like I 'd been kicked by a camel but I still needed food , so I polished off the eclair , belched with all the decorum I could , and started eyeing up a Danish pastry . |
| 16 | I left before the tour was over because it was time for Mott The Hoople to come and tour and I 'd been designated as the person to take care of them , so I went off before it was over . |
| 17 | I tried it once and burnt my mouth so badly I looked like I 'd been kissing superglue . |
| 18 | My mother thought if I 'd been a boy Dad would have lived with us and been grand , or at least people would have noticed us . |
| 19 | I often thought if I 'd been married to Finn and I 'd had a gun handy , I 'd 've widowed myself more than once . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I could have arranged to be there when he called … none of this would have happened if I 'd been there to take care of her . ’ |
| 21 | I think if I 'd been in a Western country I would have had a lot more comeback … |
| 22 | But it was n't like I 'd imagined — except for the long silences when I 'd been hoping for laughs . |
| 23 | But I had been er made a mon I think I told you this before , a monitor and I used to dodge all these sort of things and erm I used to go after I 'd been putting the books out for the next lesson , I could go to the library and I used to sit down and read . |
| 24 | The nationality rule was a beautiful get-out for them , but I only had a few months to go before I 'd been here for ten years and would have been entitled to fight for the title . |
| 25 | The Israeli Mossad would have confirmed that I 'd been killed in Damascus . |
| 26 | It 's you know and my pride was getting a little bit dented that I 'd been selling market for years suddenly I was n't doing this . |
| 27 | I would have discovered once I 'd been through it all . |
| 28 | When I came back to England I was very humbled really to erm because I arrived in Nepal three hours before that crash and erm a lot of people had thought I 'd died in that crash and erm the patients had thought I 'd died as well and they had to put a big notice outside to say that I 'd been alright , they had lots of people ringing up . |
| 29 | I was flattered that I 'd been chosen , but at the same time pretty scared . |
| 30 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |