Example sentences of "'d [been] [verb] [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 2 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |
| 3 | What did he care about getting rid of the Corn Laws either — which was what the whole argument had been about — since they 'd been created in the first place for the benefit of his land-owning friends ? |
| 4 | He said he 'd been followed for the last week or so . |
| 5 | ‘ I asked what you 'd been doing for the last five years … ’ |