Example sentences of "'d [be] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 'd been services in St Simon and St Jude 's every day this week . |
| 2 | There 'd been assumptions , had n't there , made very happily and very easily , and they smashed into the buffers . |
| 3 | They 'd been friends for some time when I first knew them but I did n't realise how long . |
| 4 | We 'd been friends for so long , we could n't understand what was happening . ’ |
| 5 | There was an immediate rapport , as if we 'd been friends for years , and that happens only rarely . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ We 'd been friends for 30 years but ‘ discovered ’ each other when Misia became a widow . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It makes you more mine than if there 'd been others or if your marriage had been real . " |
| 11 | We were told that previously , when dogs were allowed , there 'd been problems , so they decided to stop letting them in . |
| 12 | In the past there 'd been cases of children who were witches . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | If only we 'd been strangers |
| 15 | Earlier there 'd been demonstrations at the Moat House hotel in the city where a conference was being held . |
| 16 | Earlier there 'd been demonstrations at the Moat House hotel in the city where a conference was being held . |
| 17 | Historically there 'd been attempts to cut down the effects of the sea by building breakwaters and so on . |
| 18 | There 'd been incidents of violence between gangland type er warfare between inmates . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | You were wondering how long we 'd been lovers . |
| 21 | They 'd been lovers for some time , apparently . |
| 22 | Because th th th th there , there 'd been statements from Mao until the end of nineteen forty five where he 's still talking about land to the tiller being some way off |
| 23 | There 'd been months of preparation and delays because of the weather . |
| 24 | ‘ They 'd been pals since they were schoolkids . ’ |
| 25 | They 'd been snakes . |
| 26 | And these disciples and Jesus , some of them seasoned , experienced fishermen , they 'd been fishermen all their lives , their fathers had been fishermen before them and they were frightened ! |
| 27 | There 'd been photographs of these people 's faces in the newspapers , but Stephen had forgotten what the faces looked like . |
| 28 | Because there 'd been arguments about it earlier on in the century , had n't there ? |
| 29 | ‘ They 'd have been all right if they 'd been firewomen — she loves women , ’ he said . |
| 30 | They 'd been almost-friends for six years . |