Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] 'd [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are about fourteen roads , streets , crescents , avenues , walks , and squares all called whatever it was you told James , and I visited number fifteen in all of them before I realized I 'd been had . |
| 2 | But I realised I 'd been a bit heavy . |
| 3 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ I was bleeding and realised I 'd been hit . ’ |
| 5 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 6 | Wendy Almon went to pick up two-year-old Eva , but found she 'd been abducted |
| 7 | ‘ I got a bit worried when I found you 'd been sending your subordinates out to buy crucifixes . ’ |
| 8 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |
| 11 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
| 12 | Mind you I 'd I 'd been running er ru running the tail route , that 's another route as you meet on er goes onto a gate on the left hand side where you got wagons about eight wagons , put it put them back , fasten this rope at the back . |
| 13 | There certainly was n't in mine because I 'd I 'd been sacked . |
| 14 | It was impossible to know whether he still believed she 'd been responsible for that . |
| 15 | I imagined she 'd been knifed , violated . |
| 16 | His wife , Shirley , believed we 'd been brought together for a reason and , after a while , she reckoned my sight would be healed . |
| 17 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 18 | But these I tried , but they 'd they 'd been used . |
| 19 | But tonight he said he believed he 'd been punished enough . |
| 20 | And it took a long while for the letters to get there but he knew while he was on the boat that his wife was pregnant and er when he got here , she 'd it 'd been aborted . |
| 21 | And he 'd he 'd been on the dole er I think two years , and he 's just started up a a building site . |
| 22 | Jahsaxa flinched with annoyance when she realised she 'd been connected with the Roirbak answering machine again . |
| 23 | Lord C had said she 'd borne them with stoicism , but looking back she realised she 'd been disappointed not to receive the whole dozen . |
| 24 | After a while she realised she 'd been beating at him with her fists hard enough to hurt and yet he had n't lifted a finger to stop her . |
| 25 | It was only then , when her heart leaped alarmingly and her pulse quickened in immediate response , that she realised she 'd been half expecting he would n't keep the date . |
| 26 | She could find nothing to say , and as she sat avoiding his eyes she realised she 'd been a fool . |
| 27 | Though , on reflection , she realised she 'd been silly to think that . |
| 28 | Virginia realised she 'd been gripping the steering-wheel unnecessarily tightly and consciously relaxed , forcing a laugh and wincing as the vibration worsened her headache . |
| 29 | It was only then she realised she 'd been holding her breath . |
| 30 | Maggie realized she 'd been in the wrong . |