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

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1 It 'd been an embarrassment to me , but I said I was n't taking the bag , that the other guy could finish the round and that I 'd wait until tomorrow .
2 ( No , it 'd been raining . )
3 So the first opportunity I had I left Bradley 's and went back to the Lock so it 'd been war direction , war service we asked and it counted as me service with the Lock , that I had n't interrupted me service being as I was directed so that 's how I say I had fifty years at the Lock .
4 It 'd been running at a loss for years .
5 He spoke of it a lot that evening : not to bring home to her all he 'd done but rather because it 'd been perhaps the biggest single event in his ( now rather dull ) life .
6 At first it 'd been : ‘ if he marries again . ’
7 If it 'd been me wed … ’
8 And it took a long while for the letters to get there but he knew while he was on the boat that his wife was pregnant and er when he got here , she 'd it 'd been aborted .
9 I mean I , it 's no good me husbands to look af , I I this is my second husband but er with my first husband er I I sort of erm if it 's been left to him , God bless him , he 's dead now but if it 'd been left to him I 'd have had a houseful of children you know .
10 And they used to erm er get this er net or lace right what they were gon na what they after it 'd been starched and everything .
11 It moved two things which put it into operation , you know and er I could turn the knob and it 'd get the whole thing going , it 'd get you inside , it 'd register that it 'd been , when you shut the door , as soon as you shut , in the toilets , as soon as you shut the door the penny dropped down , see what I mean .
12 I mean the first two the first two or three nights after and that 's like the sleeping death because it 's it 'd been so long since I had a complete nights sleep .
13 And then maybe after it 'd been cut for two days , you were sent out to turn the swathes , up all you went along and you turned them and turned them .
14 ‘ If it 'd been my missus , I 'd 've been relieved that someone else was taking an interest .
15 I think it 'd been about nineteen sixty maybe but I 'm not sure .
16 Aye it 'd been about twenty or thirty .
17 If it 'd been down to me , this park would never 've been sited here .
18 Erm I just wonder whether it might not have been better to move round a little bit to the left so we could have seen the lady 's hand and sa as well er er and as well as her face , you know , we 've got ta get we can see what she 's doing , know what she 's doing but it 'd been nice if you could have included her hands .
19 It 'd been more than half a year since the Long Drive , and she 'd never taken much notice of mechanical things , but she could n't help thinking the old lorry cab had been a lot less crowded .
20 See they got on the lights so long of the day in the winter time and made them lay just like as if it 'd been summer .
21 shades they were made in Finland they were the paper pleated ones , er , most of them , no , no not most of them , a lot of them fitted er close up onto the ceiling where they 're intended for centre lights and were held up onto the ceiling with a little spring , erm , they also did some quite nice pleated paper shades , er at a time when you find that most electrical shops were , would have er the old type of erm what is it , imitation silk shades with fringes round them , er fringe at the top and fringe at the bottom and so on sort of thing , when the , when those was sort of old of age everywhere , it was just the same as it 'd been before the war , er it was , you know , quite right really to see these all in different colours , completely plain , but pleated shades but in just one particular colour each shade .
22 It 'd been taken a few years earlier at a family Christmas party when we were playing Musical Chairs .
23 But it 'd been a good day last year , on the Monday holiday , and they had needed two coaches you see .
24 yes it 'd been about well on for the end of the war she got married .
25 I do n't think it 'd been very lucrative work with the amount of time he took to it .
26 Now again , if it 'd been a full interview you might have death and service benefits and things of that nature which might and then when er I tapped it was obvious that you were gon na go for ANNA and you squashed from the second appointment right to the very end in the space of the two minutes .
27 If it 'd been me and I were gon na put it there , I would have put a window there to look out of .
28 If it 'd been my box yeah it 's eight three .
29 And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step
30 And we went , because it , it 'd been at five o'clock you see , it 'd been up to the second , that was when it was up to the second step
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