Example sentences of "'d been [prep] [adj] [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 | Now she 'd done some training as a secretary — she 'd been to secretarial college . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They 'd been in terrible trouble when Matron discovered their secret , and each of them had promised never to do anything so wicked again . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If he 'd been in deep water he would n't have been damaged so much and neither would he have surfaced yet , perhaps not for several more days . |
| 14 | She 'd been in commercial radio for eleven months following nearly three years on a regional newspaper ; she reckoned to stick around this particular station for another two years at the most . |
| 15 | ‘ If I 'd been in cold sobriety I would never have married her . |
| 16 | I 'd been in this business long enough to know he was lying and that something was going on . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If she 'd been in any doubt as to the strength of my feelings , she had no excuse any longer . |