Example sentences of "'d lived [adv] " in BNC.

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1 She wondered if she had been as particular when she 'd lived here .
2 I had a couple of books which I had slipped into my light case — Somerset Maugham 's novel The Moon and Sixpence , which I was looking forward to reading again because it was , of course , based on the life of the painter Gauguin , who 'd lived here in the South Seas ; and a collection of Guy de Maupassant stories , in English .
3 When he 'd lived Outside , before the Store , he 'd got accustomed to going for days without food and then , when food did turn up , eating until he was greasy to the eyebrows .
4 For seven years they 'd lived apart — Adam in Wickrithe with Gran , herself in Coniston with Aunt Sarah and Uncle Nick — but now that she was back in Wickrithe , helping Gran with her bed-and-breakfast business for the summer , it was as if there 'd been no break .
5 The place had belonged to a Polish woman , who 'd lived there as a child and then rented it to students for the past fifteen years .
6 West Kensington itself was made up of rows of five-storey peeling stucco houses broken up into bed-sits that were mostly occupied by foreign students , itinerants and poor people who 'd lived there for years .
7 Oh I should say we 'd lived there ten years .
8 Carson said that in theory his own place was within the flood basin , but there had never been any trouble as long as he 'd lived there ; places right on the towpath used to get flooded regularly when the tide was high .
9 She 'd lived there partly because she could n't be bothered to move , partly because it was cheap , but mainly because her mother would n't let her go .
10 He 'd lived there most of his life and got on well with his neighbours .
11 We 'd lived there three years , decorated it and everything and then bang we 're out on the streets .
12 They took a chair which belonged to the eighteenth century English poet , Alexander Pope who 'd lived there while writing the first English translation of Homer 's Iliad .
13 I wish he 'd lived long enough to meet you . ’
14 I think if he 'd lived now , he 'd live differently .
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