Example sentences of "'d been [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suggested that help might come from friends who 'd been through the same scenario , or from genuinely sympathetic relatives ( but not critical ones ! ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He 'd been at the wrong end when a small company went bust in the city . |
| 4 | However the assignment took a little bit longer than it er than if he 'd been on the other product range . |
| 5 | Well I 'd been on the Menai Suspension Bridge before . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 9 | " If I 'd been in the political arena I 'd have shouted . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |