Example sentences of "'d be in " in BNC.

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1 They 'd been in it only a year , but Mrs Yardley had lavished as much effort on it as she had on her beautiful cake .
2 ‘ We 'd been in my room — Ronny 'd gone out , he always does between shows .
3 How glad I 'd been in those first nights with him .
4 If he 'd been in Eden , he would have probably left apple cores strewn all around the garden .
5 He 'd been in the War , him and Uncle John .
6 They were the only people who 'd been in his room except for his Dad last night .
7 It was a secret they 'd been in the house .
8 Once in a while she went to a social club for air pilots who 'd been in hospital .
9 If she 'd been in the kid 's place , she 'd have run off by now and left them all to it .
10 He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long .
11 The water smelled dankly of mud and winter , which I had n't seemed to notice when I 'd been in it .
12 I 'd forgotten you 'd been in it . ’
13 Someone who 'd been in the right place a couple of times .
14 ‘ If I 'd been in your shoes I 'd have walked right out on him . ’
15 The classroom was the warehouse they 'd been in before .
16 It was an awful place : dreary , badly furnished and he was n't as clean as he 'd been in hospital — food all down his clothes and he had n't shaved , he really looked unkempt .
17 We 'd been in our first house for just over five years , and I 'd served my d-i-y apprenticeship then , improving slightly as each room was restored and decorated .
18 I 'm sure you 'd have done the same if you 'd been in my shoes . ’
19 Maggie realized she 'd been in the wrong .
20 When they 'd been in The Lobster Pot , and afterwards , there had been a tremendous rapport between them .
21 They had altered the street route system since last he 'd been in the place .
22 ‘ Oh , years and years ago , after we 'd been in Italy a matter of fifteen months or so . ’
23 And I think even while we 'd been in Opposition , remember no one knew whether we were going to win or not , it surprised many people when we did , there had been some sort of discreet across-the-fence interest at the professional Civil Service level in some of the concepts that we were developing and I 'd made it a point of writing the occasional pamphlet as our thinking went along to send out smoke signals to everyone including the civil servants as to what we were about .
24 After I 'd been in three years , I got married .
25 He must have been about my age , too , because he 'd been in Nagasaki when the bomb went on .
26 ‘ I always wished I 'd been in love and run away when I was young . ’
27 It was the first time she 'd been in such a grand vehicle , and when she looked over the side she seemed so high up she was dizzy .
28 For days he 'd been in the blackest of moods , furious with her for wasting herself on a man old enough to be her father , and even more furious with himself for not having taken her forcefully after that Christmas evening when he 'd known her feelings were as inflamed as his own .
29 She 'd been in the surgery exactly two minutes .
30 He wanted us to think he 'd been in Retford .
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