Example sentences of "'d been [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ He looks as if he 'd been made King of the Harem . ’ |
| 3 | He 'd been slashing car tyres when approached him with a hammer . |
| 4 | ‘ Up until then I 'd been using gas and air and they were just about to give me some pethidine when all this serious discussion began . |
| 5 | How dared he believe that she 'd been taking money from Travis to pay her way ? |
| 6 | ‘ She 'd been taking hush-money for the last ten years . ’ |
| 7 | At the Court of Appeal today , Rachael 's solicitor explained that he 'd been frightened of losing the children , and that for several weeks before the killing he 'd been taking medication for depression . |
| 8 | I had been in trouble before , but then I 'd been given probation and community work . |
| 9 | The only other thing that you heard Sergeant say that some how at the briefing he 'd been given information that was likely to be in the master bedroom . |
| 10 | I 've often puzzled over whether , if I 'd been given guidance , would I have chosen differently ? |
| 11 | Erm in short Adam had been given erm lordship over the earth and all its creatures and with that he 'd been given lordship over all human beings and the kings of this earth have inherited that lordship , that dominion . |
| 12 | Somehow she 'd been expecting resistance , something she had frequently encountered with Graham Rowell whenever she had attempted anything new , and it came as a shock to find that she and David Markham were on the same wavelength . |
| 13 | I 'd thought you 'd been getting exercise in . |
| 14 | ‘ I had to warn Monty about his drinking because he 'd been causing trouble , ’ MGM 's then chief of production , Dore Schary said to me . |
| 15 | You , you , you 've all hea heard of Marie Curie , famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century she in fact was Polish , lived in , in , in Paris , married a French man called Pierre er hence she 's known as Marie Curie well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that , th the fact that there did n't seem to be any biological affects er certainly the doses of radiation that , that they were , they were getting they 'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende , that 's radioactive ore they extracted several grammes of radium from it , they 'd been handling stuff for years they were n't ill , they obviously had n't died and so on . |
| 16 | I tried it once and burnt my mouth so badly I looked like I 'd been kissing superglue . |
| 17 | He 'd been receiving treatment for depression and friends believe he committed suicide . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I 'd been drinking scrumpy . |
| 20 | A European commission has ruled he 'd been denied access to justice and refused freedom of speech which could open the way for the new hearing . |
| 21 | He worked out where you 'd been kept prisoner . ’ |
| 22 | It had been an exciting day for the children : they 'd been to watch pedal-car racing at the village school and the older ones had spent the afternoon in the garden with Monika making brightly coloured carnival masks . |
| 23 | We 'd been providing cover for the convoy , when a vehicle went over a land mine . |
| 24 | Edward was pale and she wondered if he 'd been eating pork crackling again which did n't agree with him , but he did n't seem sick . |
| 25 | The Edwardian informed me recently that he 'd been appointed trade attaché in one of our Central American embassies . |
| 26 | I accompanied them into the street where they rejoined the boy who 'd been standing look-out . |
| 27 | It was only when I did n't , and we 'd been making love without contraceptives for months and months , that I decided he must have been right . ’ |
| 28 | He 'd been talking shit . |
| 29 | They 'd been designing tube amps for decades , and manufacturing them on site , whereas other companies were perhaps wanting to get into the tube amp market from scratch . |
| 30 | It 's you know and my pride was getting a little bit dented that I 'd been selling market for years suddenly I was n't doing this . |