Example sentences of "[adj] she 'd been " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ But I do n't think I 'll ever be quite so scared of cows again , ’ she added , when she told of her perilous passage through the herd and how afraid she 'd been . |
| 2 | Ruth closed her eyes , the weight of relief making her feel how afraid she 'd been . |
| 3 | Only when she heard her aunt 's familiar voice and had to fight a desire to burst into tears did Luce realise just how strung-up she 'd been . |
| 4 | She said she was sorry she 'd been so cross about Timothy Gedge . |
| 5 | Dot was glad she 'd been warned by the dancing man because there was no warning from Gloria . |
| 6 | Being upset about Timothy Gedge had made her tired , but she was glad she 'd been upset , for at least it made sense , not like moping over a baby that could n't be born . |
| 7 | She was lucky she 'd been able to keep it a secret all along . |
| 8 | After all , she now knew beyond reasonable doubt who her father had been , and she 'd warmed to the little she 'd been told about him . |
| 9 | How gullible she 'd been . |
| 10 | I mean , you were n't even sure she 'd been there at all . ’ |
| 11 | I 'm sure she 'd been sitting there , but she was hardly wearing anything ! |
| 12 | Says she could n't stop 'erself , she was so sure she 'd been saved . ’ |
| 13 | Sure she 'd been with you , SOE . |
| 14 | How stupid she 'd been not to realise it from the start . |
| 15 | How incredibly silly and pathetic she 'd been . |
| 16 | It was just too bad she 'd been fool enough to believe him . |
| 17 | Now if you come to Caldmore , you 'll find out then that the majority of the married ladies had worked in I mean I should say that erm I know my mother was very snooty she 'd been an apprentice to some dressmakers in Street and work for one year for nothing she always used to tell me , and she was quite er toffee- nosed about these girls that used that er that used to go , well they were very respectable people , and when I was a kid when I growing up in my teens a lot of the girls I used to know were in the offices at er it they employed about fifteen hundred people at in those days you know I mean coming out of at night it was fighting your way against the crowd if you were going towards it , and the same thing going through the square for people who have worked in when they left that 's why all those shops in the square used to do reasonably well , it was the people walking through to go up the other side of Walsall , but there was a crowd of people I can , I can always remember as a kid a crowd of people and then there 'd be well you can tell it was along Street in those days I can remember fruiters ' carts where the girls used to go and buy apples , and that all sort of going along there you know people used to wait for them coming out , these are my impressions as a kid I mean I can remember the , the er and the men of course were cutters and various people and a quite a lot of my father 's friends were , were er had er skilled jobs at as cutters and managers of the cutters ' department and that sort of thing . |