Example sentences of "'d [been] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Guido released her and stepped away , and where there 'd been warmth there was suddenly coldness .
2 You see I 'd been Oxford .
3 There 'd been services in St Simon and St Jude 's every day this week .
4 There 'd been assumptions , had n't there , made very happily and very easily , and they smashed into the buffers .
5 They 'd been part of an 8-man patrol , call sign Bravo-2-0 , whose task was to seek and destroy the mobile Scud launchers with which Saddam Hussein was attacking Israel .
6 McLaren , the 22-year-old Hearts defender , told me recently that when he made his World Cup debut against Italy ( the game where he was asked to mark Roberto Baggio ) , the fact that he 'd been part of the squad at the European Championship finals , as well as playing a couple of games on the tour of North America last year , were of immeasurable assistance in making the step up .
7 They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long .
8 We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’
9 There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely .
10 All those years ago after we 'd been friends for a couple of months or so ( and he 'd borrowed quite a bit more money off me ) , I confessed to him that I was being persecuted by a thug called Dudley .
11 ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow .
12 They 'd been friends , companions , they 'd got on well together , but , now that she knew what real love was , she knew that she had never for one moment loved him .
13 There was none to be seen in this small guest room , but there 'd been shelves of them lining two walls in the sitting-room overlooking the Thames .
14 It makes you more mine than if there 'd been others or if your marriage had been real . "
15 We were told that previously , when dogs were allowed , there 'd been problems , so they decided to stop letting them in .
16 He wanted to live , he 'd put in long years , he 'd been champion three times , it no longer excited him to race , this was it , goodbye and thanks .
17 It was claimed the birds were related and they 'd been captive bred .
18 In the past there 'd been cases of children who were witches .
19 ‘ I thought I could handle it — but the very next day we 'd been sightseeing and returned to our suite and I looked into your eyes and felt myself drowning .
20 It was just too bad she 'd been fool enough to believe him .
21 The roads are hairpins , up and down , and they 're , they 're not tarmacked and so erm you often saw er buses that had fallen over the sides down into the river or that just were on their side , and that erm that obviously there 'd been accidents .
22 If only we 'd been strangers
23 Earlier there 'd been demonstrations at the Moat House hotel in the city where a conference was being held .
24 Earlier there 'd been demonstrations at the Moat House hotel in the city where a conference was being held .
25 Historically there 'd been attempts to cut down the effects of the sea by building breakwaters and so on .
26 I kept trying to remember what a good time Sugar and Spite had been — and Goodstyle , a history of art revue I 'd written and pinched and compiled for Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art , Dundee , when I 'd been writer in residence .
27 There 'd been incidents of violence between gangland type er warfare between inmates .
28 At least he 'd been king — he had n't blown it the week before the Coronation , like we had .
29 ‘ Dare Say certainly deserved this change of luck as he 'd been second in three of his four races so far this term . ’
30 I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that .
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