Example sentences of "'d [be] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last time she 'd been downright suspicious . |
| 2 | But there 'd been precious little joy in our marriage for some time . |
| 3 | She 'd been hopelessly optimistic in supposing she could track Suzie down in the street . |
| 4 | He accepted he 'd been grossly stupid and foolhardy . |
| 5 | Not that her cousin 's health had relapsed , or anything like that , but her mood had communicated itself to the twins , who 'd been particularly fractious and difficult . |
| 6 | He was only thirteen and he 'd been particularly close to his mother . |
| 7 | Until a moment ago she 'd been ravenously hungry , but now she was certain the salad would be dust and ashes in her mouth . |
| 8 | She 'd been here four days and it was high time she wrote to him . |
| 9 | I 'd been fast asleep when he 'd come in from work the night before . |
| 10 | If he 'd been wary of placing too much trust in her , she 'd been openly sceptical about him , right from their first meeting . |
| 11 | There 'd been yet another cancelled lesson only today and Ronni was feeling even angrier and edgier than ever as , just after lunchtime , she made her way down the garden towards the villa 's private little jetty , a corner she had n't explored before , to try and calm herself with a breath of air . |
| 12 | And er it was said that he he was he 'd been away ill . |
| 13 | He 'd been rather preoccupied . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , I 'd been rather afraid of that , too . ’ |
| 15 | He probably thought he 'd been rather smart but today he discovered you were supposed to be dead . ’ |
| 16 | Talkies time , he 'd said , yet he 'd been curiously evasive . |
| 17 | Yet he 'd been incredibly gentle after she 'd hit him , and it was Leo 's face in her mind as she fell asleep , not Ryan 's . |
| 18 | She had n't wanted to take the four months ' pay from Nicolo , but he 'd been coldly adamant . |
| 19 | Last night , for instance , she 'd been barely able to keep her eyes open during dinner . |
| 20 | He 'd been badly shocked last night . |
| 21 | From nothing : in 1850 he 'd been just one of the hands at Wm Paul 's Tannery in Kirkstall Road . |
| 22 | She 'd been well aware that Ruth Russell grudged her every penny . |
| 23 | His words might have been ambiguous , but the hackles rose on Rory 's neck as if he 'd been blatantly insulting . |
| 24 | He 'd been pretty sure that Annie would prove potentially harmful . |
| 25 | I 'd been officially blind for five years when I met Pete at the Guide Dog Centre in Wokingham , Berkshire , ’ Andrew Miles explained . |
| 26 | She 'd been abominably rude to him since they 'd first met . |
| 27 | There , she had been happy in Pakistan ; she had been happy in the Peckham house at least for the first year ; she had been happy working for Graham ; she 'd been enthusiastically interested at college and during the first two years after she had qualified ; she had been completely delighted when she had got the job she now had : a tenants ' association garden in a dreadful estate in Hackney , but where she , with a community group , had planned the garden from scratch and had made a small desert blossom like a rose . |
| 28 | And until now she 'd been naïvely pleased with the result . |
| 29 | He 'd been increasingly anxious ever since Roy Bliss 's unwelcome visit that morning . |
| 30 | Firstly , although Isabelle had kindled her love for foreign languages by teaching her their own native tongue , at the same time she 'd been strangely reticent about her own life . |