Example sentences of "'d be [verb] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping . |
| 2 | They 'd been sharing a cell for the last two years . |
| 3 | Dot wished she 'd been given a bed nearer one of the windows so she could see out , or at least by the door . |
| 4 | He 'd been given a position in prison administration in Paris , and Sylvia thought he might be of help to her in finding Madeleine and Jeanne . |
| 5 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 6 | A bandage round his head , a cup of tea in his blunt hands , he looked like the only survivor of some great catastrophe , and Nathan could understand exactly why he 'd been able to move India-May to tears and why he 'd been given a room on the first floor , one of the large ones , for nothing . |
| 7 | So he made a couple of phone calls to Osnabrück-he found he 'd been given a room with an Engineer regiment-then sipped a lager until train time . |
| 8 | Without consulting her it began to move faster , inciting her lover to a rhythm which he responded to triumphantly , accelerating in time with their heartbeats , taking her with him towards the culmination she 'd been given a foretaste of , which paled in comparison to the flooding rapture which overtook her seconds before Penry gasped , stiffened , then crushed her in his arms as their breathing slowed in the shared diminuendo of the aftermath . |
| 9 | It was as if she 'd been given a glimpse of paradise , and then had it barred to her forever . |
| 10 | Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone . |
| 11 | She thought she knew what might have been on his mind , because he 'd been writing a letter in the Lounge . |
| 12 | as if she 'd been wearing a coat of many many colours , and , beached on the desert island shore of Pity Me , had shredded the damn shrunken thing . |
| 13 | Now you can work out for yourselves that if you 'd been betting a pound on each of those horses you 'd have finished up substantially down . |
| 14 | I 'd been told a lot of stories |
| 15 | I 'd been researching an article for an historical magazine . |
| 16 | ‘ Then she told me she 'd been offered a part in Jane Eyre at Warrington rep and did I think she ought to accept . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd been offered a couple of things in the league , and I could have gone to Kuwait or South Africa . |
| 18 | ‘ She 'd been offered a job in America , nanny to a widower with two small children . |
| 19 | Oh er of course they erm , they did n't believe in married women working and er they thought a married woman should be at home you see , well I had n't got any family then you see , until er after oh we 'd been married a number of years when we had , when I had my first baby and er and then I had the other one pretty quickly and er then I was glad to go out to work again when they were school age , they were n't left unattended at all er one , the elder one looked after the one , we did n't live , we lived in then but erm there was n't any pressure for me to stay at home , it was with my husband 's consent , because he knew it was helping out because rent man 's wages were n't very good then , and erm he er he finished , he finished at the pits you see and he got a job rent collecting , and he er he used to do miles he 'd cycle part of the way and then er he 'd perhaps leave his cycle somewhere and call back for it , but he used to do all the and all round there , there 's a place called and then er a lot of places er he used to do the old , is this , is this on , erm he used to do round , round the top there there were some slums there . |
| 20 | ‘ Mum says he should have looked first , Dad says if she 'd been keeping an eye on him he would have been fine . |
| 21 | Ron said that he 'd been preparing an obituary of Lord Mountbatten for some time , that Mountbatten had somehow got wind of it and had approached the BBC with a view to taking part . |
| 22 | I 'd been having a bit of a go about putting your hand up but every time he put his hand up I 'm bending over somebody or I 'm in a different part of the room . |
| 23 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 24 | He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ? |
| 25 | The man who killed officer worker Anna McGurk has told a jury he 'd been having an affair with her before her death . |
| 26 | Dawson was aware that she 'd been combating a bout of ill-temper since he 'd arrived . |
| 27 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 28 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 29 | Maybe she 'd been doing a lot of thinking . |
| 30 | And the circumfe and erm diameter on I 'd been cutting a lot of them down , the diameter of them was from four foot to about six foot . |