Example sentences of "'d been [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time . |
| 2 | I suggested that help might come from friends who 'd been through the same scenario , or from genuinely sympathetic relatives ( but not critical ones ! ) . |
| 3 | Rachel suddenly felt she 'd been through an emotional wringer . |
| 4 | I remember that luncheon with Basil absolutely perfectly , and that I 'd been at the National Gallery or the Tate , and I had a postcard with me of one of those primitive paintings , naïve paintings , of a cricket match they still have postcards of it . |
| 5 | He 'd been at the wrong end when a small company went bust in the city . |
| 6 | However the assignment took a little bit longer than it er than if he 'd been on the other product range . |
| 7 | Well I 'd been on the Menai Suspension Bridge before . |
| 8 | All of which explained that when I arrived at the BMC 's International Meet halfway through the week , the climbers that drifted into breakfast that morning looked like they 'd been on the receiving end of a very nasty artillery barrage . |
| 9 | It was an Unmentionable Disease , and he 'd caught it because he 'd been to an Unmentionable Place and so it served him right , but that did n't make it any less sore . |
| 10 | For upset stomach read hangover , she thought , knowing he 'd been to an eighteenth birthday celebration for one of his friends the night before . |
| 11 | I , I only took one case on after I was married er and that er that was a maternity case I 'd been to the first baby . |
| 12 | ‘ She 'd been to the French Riviera — or it could have been the Swiss Alps — or it could have been both — for a good couple of months . ’ |
| 13 | She had no wish to hurt Anna and besides , how could she complain when the truth was that she was happier here at the palazzo than she 'd been in a long time ? |
| 14 | I think if I 'd been in a Western country I would have had a lot more comeback … |
| 15 | I 'd been in a light sleep . |
| 16 | " If I 'd been in the political arena I 'd have shouted . |
| 17 | Well , his theory was that this guy was a writer or something , a historian or somebody like that , and Freud said it 's quite likely that in the past he had had either dreams about a similar dream or conscious fantasies about how he would have felt if he 'd been in the French Revolution and what might have happened to him . |
| 18 | We 'd been in the same form for two terms without really speaking because we had separate friends and in any case at St Edward 's you were seated according to your exam results at the end of the previous term , so it was n't likely we 'd be close . |
| 19 | Yes , I know , yes but I mean it 's interesting at lunch time I had a , I had a working lunch with someone and a month after we had finished all the work and stuff , we got on to a whole pile of other things and , and I was talking about some of the -ists and one of the -ists I was talking about was feminism and how I 'd been in an amazing meeting a few weeks ago where you know I used that word and the women , it was all a meeting with women , the women there had absolutely freaked at the use of the word feminism and feminists . |