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

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1 ‘ But I do n't want to be sharing my life with anyone , gorgeous hunk or not , ’ Shannon had pointed out mildly , managing with an effort not to remind Kelly they 'd been over this ground a hundred times before .
2 How would you describe , if you 'd been through that jungle what would you have said ?
3 I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all .
4 Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening .
5 I 'd been at that school for two terms , eight months at the most .
6 I wonder , if you 'd been at that dinner , would you have joined them in their scepticism .
7 Yes that 's how that 's how it was , yes all I was on that gate , I 'd been on that gate myself dozens of times .
8 Well none of the lads were prepared to take that on , cos we 'd been on this contract with for the last eleven years .
9 Although before this year he 'd been to fewer golf tournaments than we had cold drinks on that hot September afternoon , he still has fond memories of watching Arnold Palmer win the Colonial NIT close to his hometown of Dallas in 1962 .
10 He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long .
11 I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’
12 She moved away from him and went over to the couch she had taken her ease in the last time she 'd been in this room .
13 If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer .
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