Example sentences of "we 'd [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course we were very strongly against it really but er , because th you know we 'd been inundated with all these marvellous ideas of this progress and it 's all for the best and everything , but it does n't seemed to have work does it really ? |
| 2 | ‘ Actually I was really happy about that , not just because we 'd been made Singe Of The Week , but because it was a woman reviewing the singles — and they 're a lot harder to please . |
| 3 | We 'd been trying to see someone there for months , but although I 'd delivered petitions , I 'd never managed to get through the front door . |
| 4 | We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms . |
| 5 | ‘ If we 'd been pounced upon a year ago we 'd have had maybe one good song and we would have been shit and not ready , without our style defined . ’ |
| 6 | If we 'd been engaged , I might have thought you 'd come to give me back my ring . ’ |
| 7 | Big fucking deal , we thought , we 'd been robbing them blind |
| 8 | Yeah the main difficulty is in is in the time period because it 's it 's quite likely that I mean I 'd we 'd been we 'd been hoping that the target candidate could put in a reasonable amount of personal commitment to the campaign . |
| 9 | We 'd been providing cover for the convoy , when a vehicle went over a land mine . |
| 10 | It was just because we 'd been drinking . |
| 11 | We 'd been drinking vin blanc and supping pork pies and and when we sat on the boat , sailor says , You 'll not there long , you know , we sat on the bow er on the from of the boat . |
| 12 | And the lessons learned were , how to manage projects better than we 'd been managing projects before . |
| 13 | In fact the night he died , the Saturday , we 'd been fishing all day , just the two of us . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | We realised we 'd been depending too much on verbal instructions so we concentrated on producing written safety procedures , including training and planning . |
| 16 | ‘ We 'd been sent out here on Uncle Mick 's money . |
| 17 | Our next destination was the West Coast and we stopped first at Arthur 's Pass , where we 'd been invited to stay in a tramping hut but it was under repair , so we stayed in a backpackers ' . |
| 18 | God in heaven , you 'd think we 'd been eating leftovers . |
| 19 | Yeah , well even Laura like she eats salad at school like you know , but erm , she 's got erm , what did we have the other night cos we 'd been eating semi semi Mediterranean food this week |
| 20 | I 've seen we 'd been firing just observa observation beams they were sixty pounder guns . |
| 21 | We 'd been discussing something else , and I said it out of the blue , but in my mind it was as if we 'd just been talking about Oliver , and the way she answered , as if she thought we 'd just been talking about Oliver too and there was n't any break in that conversation even though we 'd been through lots of different subjects in the meantime , made me feel very cheerful . |
| 22 | ‘ We 'd been assured that the case would be dismissed , none of the evidence tied up , even the judge did n't believe he was guilty . |
| 23 | we only went out for forty minutes , we were surprised how long we 'd been gone |
| 24 | I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well but as Father 's Day approached , Joe made it clear that I could n't hope to be any more than just second best |
| 25 | ‘ And I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well together . ’ |
| 26 | And er he did n't blame me one bit of doing that because we 'd been getting the run around . |
| 27 | We 'd been living in his London flat , and so far our frantic house-hunt had been futile — too big , too small , too near the road , too far from London , but mostly too expensive . |
| 28 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 29 | When Phil and I , the first time we 'd been skiing together , so that was last , not last year |
| 30 | We 'd been visited by 700 people . |