Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] 'd been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom and Terry , but especially Terry , wanted to know everything about us immediately : where we 'd been to school ; what we 'd studied ; the history of the British constitution , or lack of it from an American point of view ; what the real situation was in Ireland ; why did n't Brian hit me when I responded to a proffered cigarette with , ‘ Fuck off out of my life , you wheedling Irish bastard ’ ? |
| 2 | I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it . |
| 3 | It was the first time , too , that I 'd been in a classroom with girls , and I got in with a bad bunch of women . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | That was quite nice , to see somebody that I 'd been in prison with and still be able to sit down and talk the same old way . |
| 6 | I would have discovered once I 'd been through it all . |
| 7 | Mrs Clinton replied that she 'd been at college with him and they 'd had a very close relationship . |
| 8 | I think it was just the thought that she 'd been on it you know , and a nice bit of heat and everything , relaxing . |
| 9 | He 'd been no more than another face around the yard on the two or three occasions that she 'd been by , no reason that he should have made any lasting impression on her at all . |
| 10 | This was the first time in her life that she 'd been in the company of a man who could bring her out in nervous flushes , make her heartbeat race and her stomach turn all watery , just by watching her … |
| 11 | However , the London season was almost upon them and she was more cheerful than she 'd been for weeks . |
| 12 | R R Ricky er Richie er longer than she 'd been with any you know , boy that she got on with |
| 13 | Yet Jezrael knew he 'd been one of them for longer than she 'd been on Mars . |
| 14 | She had no wish to hurt Anna and besides , how could she complain when the truth was that she was happier here at the palazzo than she 'd been in a long time ? |
| 15 | ‘ T is how I learned that you 'd been at the castle . |
| 16 | Father and son exchanged looks , in better temper with each other than they 'd been for years . |
| 17 | They were both drunker than they 'd been for years . |
| 18 | He said the miners were being asked to accept wages that were even lower than they 'd been before the war and that their working conditions were appalling . |
| 19 | er , she said that they 'd been to the said this man had been to her house . |
| 20 | It may therefore become of some importance , who it was told you that they 'd been in prison together and so were at least known to each other . |
| 21 | Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days . |
| 22 | He may well be a transvestite , but I ca n't help wondering whether the make-up was simply a blind to ‘ Prove ’ , as it were , that he 'd been to a party that night , in case anyone picked him up . |
| 23 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |
| 24 | ‘ A few days later he told me that he 'd been to Cintra 's with her . |
| 25 | Everyone would know he 'd become Rosa 's suitor , now that he 'd been to the house and paid a call after meeting her secretly at night . |
| 26 | and this is really sad , and he told me mum that he 'd been to a hairdressers and done it . |
| 27 | He could n't believe what he 'd done , that he 'd been into Mrs Wright 's house , into her bedroom even , when she was out . |
| 28 | Did he tell you that he 'd been at flat I mean years before or near the date of this or what ? |
| 29 | In the week that he 'd been at the helm of the Anpetuwi ship there had been a remarkable change in atmosphere . |
| 30 | Er , I 'd been told er that he 'd been in prison with Mr er I believe it was in nineteen eighty six and I 'd also been told that in the past er and er had planned armed robberies together . |