Example sentences of "'d been [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been here before , and- ’ |
| 2 | She was alive ; and she 'd been here before , in this shadowy glade with the dark pool . |
| 3 | William was nervous because he 'd been here before and he knew what was going to happen next , but his father kept smiling at him cheerfully , a strong , reassuring presence by his side . |
| 4 | In discussion , he said he 'd been here once before , and he 'd gone to visit the government . |
| 5 | I just privately discharged myself and let the Americans think I 'd been here all along . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Silas said you 'd been here only a few days . ’ |
| 7 | Suppose she came back now and told him she 'd been somewhere else ? |
| 8 | They had enjoyed my Watering-Place , a collection of interlinked sketches about Tunbridge Wells , lately published ( 'We 'd been rather badly off for books ' ) , and they had tales of other writers . |
| 9 | He had successfully stamped it out in his own country , and if he 'd been rather too hard on the jews at the same time , well why not ? |
| 10 | Of course , he 'd been right all along ! |
| 11 | 30 " He was dead when he went in , and as he 'd been dead only for about six to seven hours , it could n't have been longer than that . |
| 12 | Perhaps if he 'd been around more , he might have held the club together . |
| 13 | There 'd been ever more frequent occasions , when he took her to dances and held her in his arms , that he had once more become acutely aware of her in a physical sense . |
| 14 | I remember when I 'd been there only two weeks I almost got put on report for smoking in the avenue . |
| 15 | Her parents had sent her to the convent , and she begged them to let her become a Catholic after she 'd been there only a year . |
| 16 | First thing in the morning he 'd unlock the doors , lock it up , he 'd been there long , hour before the men did . |
| 17 | ‘ If I 'd been there much longer she 'd have been levelled down all right , ’ Bridie said with a grin . |
| 18 | If you 'd been there overnight it 's unlikely you 'd be alive to tell the tale . ’ |
| 19 | When I 'd been there so long , next thing was clipping on . |
| 20 | Oh yes , I knew where he was , even though I 'd been unconscious going in and coming out , because I 'd been there before . |
| 21 | Surely Ashenden would have gone up to the Pay-Out desk immediately , if he 'd been there especially since that was the only time he was going to be in the betting-shop . |
| 22 | We 'd been there about a week when we got news that the rebel leader and his council would be holding a meeting at a farmhouse on the outskirts of Choluteca — it 's a town in the south of the country : rebel territory . |
| 23 | Well we stopped and we 'd been there about a week , and all men that 'd worked in the pits , they were fetching them . |
| 24 | near Kettering , Don went to er Northampton and then finally I went to Rushden and er I 'd been there about a year and all of a sudden there was a call in for Shorteners at so I went down on the bike and er what er the one over me who , who was elderly , well was n't over me but he was er he was on my job but the senior man on it he come in , the boss had sent him in to have a look cos the er Shorteners were complaining , and er then they rang up for one of us , he said well I 'm not leaving till I 've solved this problem so I had to go . |
| 25 | He thought he 'd been there once but had no idea now . |
| 26 | But she 'd been far too immersed in her studies , and had also been far too proud and fastidious , to experiment sexually with any of her contemporaries . |
| 27 | So it had seemed sensible for Ross to have his old bedroom , while she 'd been far too weary to care where she slept . |
| 28 | But it made it a very anxious first night for me , and before the curtain went up , as I sat in my dressing-room in make-up and costume ready to go on stage , Guthrie , who 'd been really very sympathetic if not totally convinced all along , came in , patted me on the shoulder and said , " Whatever happens , dear , we were right to do it . " |
| 29 | But that was stupid ; she 'd been much too young , when her mother left , to remember anything about her . |
| 30 | She 'd been almost too self-effacing , he thought . |