Example sentences of "[pron] 'd just [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd just been making a documentary about real heroes and I was n't in any mood to put up with actors who were only heroic on screen . |
| 2 | Well , I 'd just been paid , so there was no problems about me having money to score , so I think I 'd just set me mind that I wanted to sort meself out once and for good . |
| 3 | Several times in fact , once on the tube train , twice on the ordinary trains , so it was n't the pictures that upset me — Doc Keylock had explained all that years ago , it 's all to do with the panting , what they call hyperventilation , causing a temporary malfunction in the brain — but I 'd never had anything as vivid as the memory I 'd just been through . |
| 4 | To judge by your face , you 'd have thought I 'd just been sentenced to hang , not thrown a lifeline . ’ |
| 5 | The divi was very important which is why I , as a Guild 's woman erm through I suppose the memories of mother , was so adamant in against the dividend stamps because to us , that woman who I 'd just been talking about , Councillor Mrs always , I 'm sure no one would mind me saying it , but she always used to tell us that it was her thrift and she saved and they brought their house through this , the Co-op you see . |
| 6 | I took it for granted I 'd just been lying there since I went out , and whoever had jumped me had made off and left me there . |
| 7 | I 'd just been talking to the guard , twelve hour shifts , sixty hours a week and he ca n't even have any time off for tea breaks or meal breaks . |
| 8 | By nine , the playroom was like something censored out of Gremlins , and I spent most of the morning as a cross between Mummy Bear and Mister Wolf I 'd just been pinned to the floor , it was like an insane asylum in Lilliput , when buti Sikita beckoned me to the phone . |
| 9 | I 'd just been turned down for yet another job , hardly any money left — desperate , I was , and out comes your grandfather , asks me what 's wrong . ’ |
| 10 | They probably thought , at that time of the afternoon , that I 'd just been made redundant . |
| 11 | Funny I 'd just been saying that , just been reading a book allegedly written by erm Uri Geller , you know the |
| 12 | But erm I felt as though , I felt exactly the same , I felt I 'd just been asleep I just had my eyes shut and I felt opening one eye to have a look out and see what people were doing . |
| 13 | ‘ I thought you 'd just been made a director of this firm ? ’ |
| 14 | Penelope Huntley let go of it anxiously and said no , that it was perfectly fine , she 'd just been cold outside . |
| 15 | She 'd just been visiting a widow of an old army friend of Yury 's , who had a bad attack of flu . |
| 16 | Then drew back quickly , as if she 'd just been burned . |
| 17 | ( She told me later she 'd just been in hospital . |
| 18 | She wore a large white straw hat and looked as if she 'd just been to church . |
| 19 | Still it was hard when she 'd just been asked to blow up an orbiting city with almost a million inhabitants . |
| 20 | She looked small , frail , and feeble ; her face was dazed and vacant , as if she 'd just been woken up and could n't quite remember where she was . |
| 21 | ‘ Why ? ’ she demanded , finally deciding that she 'd just been insulted . |
| 22 | She remembered what she 'd just been doing . |
| 23 | She was n't sure which would have been worse — open , lustful leering , or the teasing mockery she 'd just been subjected to . |
| 24 | His eyes raked mockingly over her dishevelled nakedness , and she shuddered , still caught up in the storm he had unleashed , but horrified , too , to realise what she 'd just been doing . |
| 25 | The gleam in his eyes made her uncomfortably certain he knew perfectly well what she 'd just been thinking . |
| 26 | Well I 'm gla glad she 's getting something done about it now cos you and she 'd just been left , sh er , had n't been persuaded she 'd have just let it go on and on and on would n't |
| 27 | When Creed called , Jed was watching a news report about a vulture who 'd just been arrested on a murder charge . |
| 28 | Rupert , who 'd just been appointed Tory Minister for Sport , eyed Mrs Sherwood back . |
| 29 | ‘ The look on your face was like a naughty schoolgirl who 'd just been caught with a stolen pie . |
| 30 | They got the idea when Rex , who 'd just been made redundant , was talking to a friend of his who was also out of work . |