Example sentences of "'d [been] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been annoying the Dasses . |
| 2 | Only to wish that I 'd been born a boy . ’ |
| 3 | If he 'd been born an American he 'd have been high up in the CIA — and still informing Moscow … ’ |
| 4 | Though he did n't view the prospect with any sort of enthusiasm ( he 'd been sent a script , but had n't bothered to read it ) he knew that activity of some sort , something he had to do , was always better than nothing . |
| 5 | He 'd been lent an old relegated rod with two mottled bamboo sections and a greenheart tip , a plastic centre-pin reel and a yellowed quill float . |
| 6 | I 'd been made a lance-corporal just before we left and had been put in charge of a group of boys . |
| 7 | Bobby Vinton 's ‘ Blue Velvet ’ is this week 's network chart number one ; he has n't had a hit since the nineteen sixties , and when he was told of his success in America , he thought he 'd been made the victim of a Jeremy Beadle style prank . |
| 8 | All the same , he wished he 'd paid a little more attention to what had gone on when he 'd been leaving the depot so that he could have spotted when they carried out that trick with the form he was supposed to have dropped . |
| 9 | They 're being sold by an enthusiast who 'd been collecting the models since he was a boy . |
| 10 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 11 | Kenneth came across it while returning from a far-flung artist 's studio where he 'd been to purchase a John Miller watercolour for my birthday . |
| 12 | Last night , standing on the deck of Devlin 's ketch as they rapidly approached the island , she 'd been thinking the same thing . |
| 13 | 2 families had to leave their homes after they were terrorised by a mob , angry they 'd been helping the Police to catch the joyriders . |
| 14 | The debt counsellor who 'd been helping the Harrises said Dorend Ltd had agreed to wave interest of around £30,000 . |
| 15 | ‘ He 'd been called a wop and I was called a coon . |
| 16 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 17 | I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping . |
| 18 | He spread the trousers carefully on the large deal table , put the towel with which he 'd been drying the luncheon dishes carefully on top of the faded tweed , smoothed it into place and began to poke out the creases with an old iron . |
| 19 | She guessed that Mike Booker would be calling curses down on her head because he 'd been hoping a one-two win at Estoril would clinch the constructors ' championship for Carlisle Flint , quite apart from putting Ace into an unbeatable lead . |
| 20 | So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get . |
| 21 | They 'd been sharing a cell for the last two years . |
| 22 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 23 | He felt drained , as if he 'd been drunk the night before . |
| 24 | Dot wished she 'd been given a bed nearer one of the windows so she could see out , or at least by the door . |
| 25 | He 'd been given a meeting place he knew of . |
| 26 | I 'd been given a pair of lime green webbed gloves as a wedding present by Roger , my surfing guru in Newquay . |
| 27 | A bandage round his head , a cup of tea in his blunt hands , he looked like the only survivor of some great catastrophe , and Nathan could understand exactly why he 'd been able to move India-May to tears and why he 'd been given a room on the first floor , one of the large ones , for nothing . |
| 28 | co-ordinates up , erm , you know , I have n't yet had contact from er no , I thought I 'd been given a new name , but , no I have n't had con any contact from my new co-ordinator yet , erm , but that was n't in my mind when I spoke on Thursday about Christmas , perhaps I ought to pursue that one in time for the next meeting and see what 's happening in South Africa and are getting it in South America for . |
| 29 | Some might say that you 'd been given a job and failed to do it . |
| 30 | She 'd been given a rail warrant to Lowestoft , where the RTO had handed her over to the navy . |