Example sentences of "there 'd been [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Dave rang me , see , and he said there 'd been some blokes asking around about me and he did n't think they were coppers at all , and I thought well , that could be The Firm —
2 There 'd been some snow , and erm er he was n't well , and could I if I cared I could look for a work elsewhere , as i it was just impossible for him to pay wages , you see ?
3 There 'd been some trouble up there between the Catholics and the Protestants and we were ordered to put a line across the road and were ordered to take out our truncheons .
4 Perhaps there 'd been some trouble — some kind of scene he wanted to warn her about .
5 There 'd been some trouble at The Randolph .
6 No , not at all , no I if there 'd been any doubt then I would n't have played , but erm no doubt at all .
7 If there 'd been any evidence to link the death to anyone connected with the Jonquil the police would have found it by now .
8 Listen , if there 'd been any fruit around I 'd have eaten it .
9 Tell him that if there 'd been any chemistry between us at all , I would have married you years ago and if he had any bloody sense he 'd do it now — in fact , forget it , I 'll tell him myself . ’
10 Yeah , could of been if there 'd been any Romans in Italy .
11 Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ?
12 And there 'd been this picture of a human lying down , with what looked like nomes tying it up with hundreds of ropes .
13 ‘ If only there 'd been more time , ’ said Kelly , ‘ I 'd have tried to help her work out a clear-cut characterisation , but we had a tight schedule and I left it up to her . ’
14 Like us , he reckoned that there 'd been another man there .
15 There 'd been another quake at 4am , a 6.5 shock .
16 In those days too , there 'd been another festival a month or so later , called ban chho āi , the leaving of the forest .
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