Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd [been] [adj -er] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | If I 'd been smarter , or less vain , I might have realized that this meant that my former role was now vacant . |
| 2 | But as we made our way down through the trees , I realized that even if I 'd been better at baling I could never have carried that load : my forehead hurt , my neck felt stiff and strained , and the pine-needles on the path , compressed and polished by thousands of feet , were as slippery as glass . |
| 3 | I would have been safer if I 'd been better at games or cleverer . |
| 4 | ‘ If I 'd been fitter I would have been sitting next to him on that aeroplane , ’ said heartbroken Fiona , who had nicknamed her lover the ‘ Kiwi Crocodile Dundee . ’ |
| 5 | If I 'd been fitter and actually lived in London it would n't have been a problem but spending 24 hours a week in heavy traffic , being away from home and missing out on spending time with my children just got me down . |
| 6 | If I 'd been fitter and actually lived in London it would n't have been a problem but spending 24 hours a week in heavy traffic , being away from home and missing out on spending time with my children just got me down . |
| 7 | If I 'd been older and known the words to comfort him … |
| 8 | ‘ I wish I 'd been older on the Drive , ’ said Nooty . |
| 9 | If I 'd been kinder to Leon would he have done those things ? |
| 10 | And then much of this leeway was made up and the capacity being there er , well the hours of work were getting tackled then , they 'd been longer hours and er I think as a a boy coming out of apprenticeship , er the forty seven hour week had come into being . |
| 11 | I think he 'd been better for a long time on and off |
| 12 | If he 'd been stronger I would n't have needed to because then he 'd have looked after me ’ . |