Example sentences of "'d [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd rather been inclined to favour the theory that Fedorov is working for the Hapsburgs . |
| 2 | I 'd rather been hoping Lewis or Verity might have asked me what the file contained by now , and what I was doing , but — annoyingly — neither of them had . |
| 3 | I think it was really because Paul felt that everything was going really well with the partnership board , and he 'd been erm putting a lot of work in with people like erm from Scarborough , and John and er other people who are on the board , but he 'd rather been neglecting building up a really good working relationship with N Y T E C. |
| 4 | Even though I 'd eventually been allowed my inhaler and eye ointment in Holloway , it had all been taken off me again . |
| 5 | She 'd rarely been at school , went into domestic service , could n't read , but can write her name , then got married . |
| 6 | She 'd only been trying to help . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She 'd only been annoyed because it upset all her work plans . |
| 9 | I met him at a dance held in the Airmen 's Mess ( so romantic ! ) , when I 'd only been at Binbrook three weeks . |
| 10 | It broke Perdita 's heart that Ricky , who 'd only been out of top-class polo for three years , was totally ignored . |
| 11 | Up to winning ‘ New Faces ’ , you 'd only been as far as the Isle of Man and considered yourself well-travelled . ) |
| 12 | If they 'd only been a few inches longer ; or perhaps if his upper body was n't so big then his legs would n't be so noticeable . |
| 13 | But he 'd only been inside the place a few minutes . |
| 14 | I 'd only been back ten minutes when we started arguing again . |
| 15 | I 'd only been in Monty 's poky little office for ten minutes and already he had given me two priceless lessons in my future profession — to make sure I dressed properly , and never be afraid to ask the question " Why ? " |
| 16 | I 'd only been there about five minutes when they came to escort me off down to Bleak House , where I was stripped naked and given a blanket and put into a cell . |
| 17 | With Keith , I fell head over heels in love with him from the first time we met , and I 'd only been going out with him two weeks and he asked me to get engaged . |
| 18 | They 'd only been married months , I thought they 'd had their first row and she 'd come home . |
| 19 | And er I remember one one chap he were a bit scared , very much so , and oh dear dear dear , he 'd only been within other bloke , a chap A chap from , what was his name now ? |
| 20 | Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her . |
| 21 | In the daylight Julie could see the holes in the road which , the previous night , she 'd only been able to feel . |
| 22 | as if I 'd only been half awake before so no wonder I could n't do anything . ’ |
| 23 | He 'd only been in eighteen months , ’ said the Bishop , in the manner of a man who is used to a longer temporal perspective . |
| 24 | She 'd only been in Dane 's company for a matter of days , but he 'd left a mark on her , a mark it could prove impossible to erase . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'd only been at Rangers five minutes when he offered me the use of his villa in Florida . |
| 26 | She 'd only been there twelve months . |
| 27 | Surely she 'd only been asleep for five minutes at the very most ? |
| 28 | She 'd only been angry because she 'd been so unaccountably shaken by those few seconds in his arms . |
| 29 | I was a gunner , I 'd only been in er |
| 30 | ‘ We 'd only been married five years when he died . |