Example sentences of "but she 'd been " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had advised her to have the baby adopted , told her she 'd not be able to earn a living for them both , but she 'd been willful and gone her own way . |
| 2 | By Christmas her child would be several weeks old , but she 'd been forced to survive on her wits since before her ma had died , and she would survive now . |
| 3 | I did n't understand what ‘ interest ’ was but she 'd been kind to me and I thought she would be kind to others and help them . |
| 4 | Edouard said he 'd been obliged to keep an elderly English woman there for a few days , but she 'd been slipping out . ’ |
| 5 | Lisa did vaguely remember , now that Kerry mentioned it , but she 'd been so absorbed in what she was doing at the time that she had n't really paid a great deal of attention . |
| 6 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 7 | It was n't IMP 's fault , or hers , that he had started at Jerez in third position , but she 'd been a convenient whipping-boy for his suspicions . |
| 8 | She guarded her secret carefully , terrified she was going to suffer from morning sickness , which might give the game away to her mother , but she 'd been lucky . |
| 9 | But she 'd been smoking too much , as well . |
| 10 | He had been sceptical at the time , but she 'd been quite right , for he had suddenly understood the story . |
| 11 | But she 'd been far too immersed in her studies , and had also been far too proud and fastidious , to experiment sexually with any of her contemporaries . |
| 12 | But , on getting her act together later the next day , Laura had been appalled to discover that not only had Ross already left for Australia — but she 'd been given a small attic room next to the children 's nursery . |
| 13 | Low blood-pressure had been an unexpected side-effect of the glandular fever , but she 'd been sure she 'd come through all that . |
| 14 | Her own business needed her attention , but she 'd been in touch with her manager , and everything was under control . |
| 15 | She told the RSPCA that the animals in question were due to be moved to better grazing but she 'd been too busy to do it . |