Example sentences of "'d just [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Penelope Huntley let go of it anxiously and said no , that it was perfectly fine , she 'd just been cold outside . |
| 2 | He 'd just been shown in by a messenger , and the moment the uniformed official had withdrawn , had expressed surprise and displeasure at finding her to be his interviewer . |
| 3 | Along the top of the ridge near the ski-lift station where they 'd just been assembled and accoutred , forty of fifty unwilling looking soldiers were strung out in a line attempting to obey orders and words of command from Non-Commissioned Officers who had sensibly omitted to incommode themselves with skis . |
| 4 | She 'd just been visiting a widow of an old army friend of Yury 's , who had a bad attack of flu . |
| 5 | His expression was severe and disapproving as if he 'd just been sucking on a slice of lemon . |
| 6 | When Creed called , Jed was watching a news report about a vulture who 'd just been arrested on a murder charge . |
| 7 | Then drew back quickly , as if she 'd just been burned . |
| 8 | Rupert , who 'd just been appointed Tory Minister for Sport , eyed Mrs Sherwood back . |
| 9 | Previously they 'd just been another name in the Gig Guide or sharing the billing on a Cud poster . |
| 10 | I 'd just been making a documentary about real heroes and I was n't in any mood to put up with actors who were only heroic on screen . |
| 11 | I mean , alright a few mad things happened and everything and when I came home I was whacked because we 'd just been on a big adventure theme park for a month . |
| 12 | We 'd just been given leave after the fiasco of Operation Eagle Claw , the so-called attempt to rescue the American hostages from our embassy in Teheran back in 1980 . |
| 13 | ( She told me later she 'd just been in hospital . |
| 14 | Well , I 'd just been paid , so there was no problems about me having money to score , so I think I 'd just set me mind that I wanted to sort meself out once and for good . |
| 15 | We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful . |
| 16 | We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful . |
| 17 | She wore a large white straw hat and looked as if she 'd just been to church . |
| 18 | Because they could have turned round Er they would n't have got as much done if there 'd just been the two boys together . |
| 19 | Still it was hard when she 'd just been asked to blow up an orbiting city with almost a million inhabitants . |
| 20 | She looked small , frail , and feeble ; her face was dazed and vacant , as if she 'd just been woken up and could n't quite remember where she was . |
| 21 | From the bunk below him Rod Porter grunted and turned over , as if to resume the peaceful sleep from which he 'd just been disturbed . |
| 22 | Several times in fact , once on the tube train , twice on the ordinary trains , so it was n't the pictures that upset me — Doc Keylock had explained all that years ago , it 's all to do with the panting , what they call hyperventilation , causing a temporary malfunction in the brain — but I 'd never had anything as vivid as the memory I 'd just been through . |
| 23 | To judge by your face , you 'd have thought I 'd just been sentenced to hang , not thrown a lifeline . ’ |
| 24 | When she said they 'd just been to see their son in Rhodesia and you said ‘ Kenya for officers , Rhodesia for other ranks ’ it was awfully rude . ’ |
| 25 | I met R. D. Case afterwards — he was on the Westminster Gazette at that time — and he told me that Stanford was so drunk that he 'd almost fallen into the gravel Apparently he 'd just been caught in time by George Watson-Forbes , who later wrote a remarkable series of articles in the Daily News on the Home Rule question . ’ |
| 26 | He 'd just been made redundant , and none of the two of us are sleeping at night . |
| 27 | The divi was very important which is why I , as a Guild 's woman erm through I suppose the memories of mother , was so adamant in against the dividend stamps because to us , that woman who I 'd just been talking about , Councillor Mrs always , I 'm sure no one would mind me saying it , but she always used to tell us that it was her thrift and she saved and they brought their house through this , the Co-op you see . |
| 28 | He 'd just been amusing himself with a new challenge , the new blonde female who 'd temporarily appeared in his life … |
| 29 | He 'd just been trying to squeeze a split-shot on to his line and it had popped out of his fingers . |
| 30 | I took it for granted I 'd just been lying there since I went out , and whoever had jumped me had made off and left me there . |