Example sentences of "'d [been] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last time she 'd been downright suspicious . |
| 2 | I had no idea he 'd been since . ’ |
| 3 | It worried her that he 'd been secretly observing her . |
| 4 | What a marvellous constitution she must have to remember that after all she 'd been through ! |
| 5 | And after all she 'd been through . |
| 6 | Something to do with what he 'd been through in some war . |
| 7 | After what we 'd been through , it was an absolute pleasure , and many passengers refused to rejoin the plane , preferring new careers mopping up oceans of urine , and scraping generations of dried shit from the walls and little holes in the ground , rather than facing up to any more sticky orange and hostess abuse . |
| 8 | It was mean , especially after all she 'd been through . |
| 9 | But mostly it was directed towards herself , and whatever it was in her that seemed to respond to some call given out by the least suitable of men ; despite what she 'd been through in the past couple of years she appeared to have learned precisely nothing . |
| 10 | The police had been convinced it was a genuine accident that took his life ( and that of his mistress ) but after what she 'd been through , after what she had discovered , Donna could not believe that men willing to kill for the possession of a book had not taken the life of the man she 'd loved . |
| 11 | A result of all the strain she 'd been through , she thought distractedly , groping for her handkerchief . |
| 12 | He 'd been round there early this morning to get some papers for the solicitor or summat . |
| 13 | he 'd been round last Friday , on Thursday she rang |
| 14 | Well he said they 'd been round with a helicopter , a plane taking photos of the houses , did I want to buy a photo of me house , twenty pound . |
| 15 | Anyway , er they we , they moved out last Friday so this week when he rang me , they 'd been round past the hotel and er there 's walls being knocked down ! |
| 16 | Young H from Wallasey was a pretty major exception to this rule — he did the drop in of doom off the extension to flat bottom hipper , slashed about did mass ollies onto the extension , laybacks , wore an agnostic Front tee , and generally skated like he 'd been around since the sevs and was a dwarf just pretending to be under 16 . |
| 17 | If we 'd been around in Nelson 's day he 'd have given his right arm for a copy . |
| 18 | I gathered that he 'd been around in some pretty exciting — oh , do you mean he might have made that up , too ? |
| 19 | I wish I 'd been around when the Titanic |
| 20 | Nevertheless , for all that he 'd been around there was definitely something that was attractive and appealing about him ; only his eyes gave him away , because they could turn cold and introspective while those around him were whooping it up . |
| 21 | They were called Jem and Eric ; he recognized them ; they 'd been around since the filming started . |
| 22 | ‘ If you 'd been around where you should have been , then possibly Ace would n't have had to take such instant action to avoid Dara ! ’ |
| 23 | If you 'd been around , I 'm sure I would have been able to say no . ’ |
| 24 | William always went that step further into life 's nightmares , and he 'd been closer to it , to start with . |
| 25 | But there 'd been precious little joy in our marriage for some time . |
| 26 | He 'd had a bad dream in which he 'd been not only head of the Conservative Research Department , but also with the Raj in Belfast , and confronted by coalminers and oil-rig workers to boot . |
| 27 | But the market would be affected , particularly as the disappointed broker had n't hesitated to tell everyone how lucky he 'd been not to drop a packet on Dreadnought , which had gone straight to the bottom like a stone in a pond . |
| 28 | How stupid she 'd been not to realise it from the start . |
| 29 | She had n't seen him for almost five years and yet — less than twenty-four hours later — she 'd been not only happily returning his kisses , but also moaning with pleasure at the feel of his hands on her body . |
| 30 | He said he 'd been please because his own jockey hated the horse . ’ |