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

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1 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 .
2 Like us , he reckoned that there 'd been another man there .
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 Listen , if there 'd been any fruit around I 'd have eaten it .
5 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 .
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