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

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1 But it was because I 'd been at St. Martin 's that we got that first gig .
2 Captain 'd been at Combe Court for ages and ages I think , cos he knew everyone , even the very poorly ones like Glenda .
3 No , it would n't have surprised me if he 'd been at his easel while I was painting the town red !
4 I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most .
5 This , of course , delighted the child and every night she stood in the wings performing everybody 's act with them , and even at the end of two shows , she was as bright in the dressing room as she 'd been at the overture .
6 She 'd been at it since tea-time , since lunch , since she got up .
7 This was the middle of an argument they 'd been at home .
8 Helen did n't help herself or increase the possibility of peace on earth by saying she 'd been at Dad 's Chislehurst gig .
9 If he did n't understand something , he was reluctant to stand up and ask , instead he 'd worry it out himself , sometimes I reckoned he 'd been at it all night .
10 ‘ Well , I just thought he 'd been at the whisky even more than usual , and ignored him .
11 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 .
12 He used to sort of let the girls know what they 'd been at .
13 He 'd been at the wrong end when a small company went bust in the city .
14 He 'd been at school with Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen .
15 Andy told me Howie and another two locals jumped a couple of travellers who 'd been at the party as well .
16 If I 'd been at school I think I 'd have wanted to leave at Easter .
17 I really enjoyed having a tutor and I learned more than if I 'd been at school .
18 Erm that probably because they 'd been at the bottom so long , er it did n't appear that there was
19 The truth of it was that he was even less certain of her now than he 'd been at the beginning ; how she thought , the way she might react as the world around her changed .
20 ‘ After I 'd been at the shop roughly eighteen months — that was in August 1914 — the Great War broke out ; and as two of our workmen joined the armed forces I had more or less to be pushed on .
21 Both Lady Amory and Sir John liked to get their hands in the soil — they did all the planting and arranging of the beds themselves — but they also had two willing helpers , gardeners who 'd been at Knightshayes for years , and some foresters .
22 I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see .
23 Johnny Smart , who 'd been at Oxford with him and edited one of the university magazines , landed what seemed then an amazing job on the Evening Standard .
24 After he 'd been at Mandru for a while , Lucien learned that Mandru had refused to have any more boys from Por Tanssie after his last purchase from that academy had committed suicide .
25 And of course a lot of the engineering was on textile machinery and er I did n't , I just would n't go back to it after I 'd been at it about a couple of years .
26 And this man he was a regular dustbin , dustbin man and he 'd been at it all his life and he used to play cards with us and his family , his sons , and , and as many else as got any money to play pontoon or brag .
27 Erm and at that ti but other than that , mind you I su I suppose that if , if I 'd been at home I should have probably been expected to be in , but I do n't think I should have been locked out .
28 ‘ So you would , if you 'd been at home , ’ Roman rapped , his quietness discarded for an anger that made Claudia shiver .
29 They were younger than myself and er we 'd been at but er we 'd been at together .
30 They were younger than myself and er we 'd been at but er we 'd been at together .
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