Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd been [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conditions were better for fishing now than they 'd been all night . |
| 2 | well they were having a biology lesson , she 'd been all about these , they 'd been this biology |
| 3 | Not that you 'd know they 'd been most days . |
| 4 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 5 | Pulling the tabs on the thermal cans to heat up the food , she glanced over at him but he was exactly as he 'd been all day , close yet remote , unreachable . |
| 6 | He 'd been some kind of engineer . |