Example sentences of "there 'd been a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last spring there 'd been a blackbird 's nest in the tree by the goal-post in the school playing-fields . |
| 2 | There 'd been a photograph of it in the paper , across someone 's hedge , its wings in a tree . |
| 3 | When Gloria complained , there 'd been a tiff and they 'd had to leave . |
| 4 | It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why . |
| 5 | There 'd been a ceremony called ban pasāi , the entering of the forest . |
| 6 | But in times gone by , there 'd been a feast at ban pasāi ; the women had brought rice and huge copper pans to the forest . |
| 7 | There 'd been a frost in the night , but now in the mid-afternoon the sun on our backs was strong and warm . |
| 8 | There 'd been a thing about it in the paper . |
| 9 | It was grey , and strangely motionless , as if there 'd been a sudden rush of concrete to his head , |
| 10 | Back at the start of March there 'd been a shake . |
| 11 | There 'd been a big robbery in Dublin : hundred thousand taken and the bank manager shot dead . ’ |
| 12 | so in all purp in , in always , the fact that you 'd come into this house made one realize that there 'd been a distinct change in one 's circumstances . |
| 13 | He would n't have minded so much if there 'd been a rise somewhere along the line — a moment of triumph , no matter how brief — but he 'd gone from children 's programmes to women 's programmes to the Devil in one slow , unspectacular but continuous slide . |
| 14 | The numbers were thinning ; there 'd been a small brawl when Doris caught Charlie sitting at Sonia 's feet ; Jane had told Sonia off in no uncertain terms and dragged her off downstairs ; one neighbour had passed rather noisily out and been lugged home ; somebody had announced an engagement . |
| 15 | That 's in case there 'd been a nasty accident , say there was an accident outside the school today , yes ? |
| 16 | ‘ Well , that 's exactly what you 'd get if there 'd been a big explosion with everything starting out from the same place . |
| 17 | There 'd been a repeat of the sensational reports about Waite — he 'd died of a heart attack in an Iranian prison camp and his body returned to Beirut , or the island of Cyprus was on alert for his imminent release — and a three-day series on all the hostages in the Independent , but there was still no questioning of government policy nor a proper analysis of what was really happening . |
| 18 | There 'd been a whole day 's racing at Goodwood , two afternoons at Wimbledon for the semi-finals and finals , the Eton and Harrow cricket match , a day at Henley and invitations to lunch and dinner parties , the theatre , the opera and then on to one of the nightclubs . |
| 19 | ‘ We went past a house where there 'd been a wedding , ’ said Lili , ‘ the night before . |
| 20 | There 'd been a cowboy film on telly that afternoon and all the little ones had come out in their cowboy hats and were firing caps off at cats and down letter-boxes . |
| 21 | After that , there 'd been a bit of a void between floundering furiously in the deep waters of the Mediterranean — her denims weighing her down and her bikini-top , evidently not refastened securely enough , doing a treacherous disappearing act — and being hauled into strong male arms , dragged aboard a strange boat , then deposited on a plush banquette seat , feeling decidedly under-dressed for the occasion … |
| 22 | Crazy , impulsive , illogical it might have been , but somewhere deep inside there 'd been a feeling of inevitability about it … |
| 23 | I 'd looked forward to it for ages , there 'd been a build-up but it was quite different for her . ’ |
| 24 | If there 'd been a fight , then I must have won it . |
| 25 | There 'd been a master at Ravenswood , a man called Funny Stiles who 'd been given the sack because he 'd made boys presents of whistles and fountain-pens . |
| 26 | In her first term at St Cecilia 's there 'd been a girl who 'd had the gift of levitation , a disturbed girl called Julie who had been able to float eight feet above the ground , whom Miss Scuse had eventually had to have removed . |
| 27 | There 'd been a smell of roses , and of coffee . |
| 28 | Existence had battered him , he said , remaining where he was , seeming not to have heard her : there 'd been a different child once . |
| 29 | There 'd been a bench between them at the time . |
| 30 | I do n't deny I hoped it was Dysart she was planning to ruin — I wondered if there 'd been a lovers ’ tiff — but she let nothing slip . |