Example sentences of "'d not been " in BNC.

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1 I could n't understand why I 'd not been killed when there were so many others who …
2 I 'd not been thinking of us as boyfriend and girlfriend , you see .
3 ‘ She 'd not been long in the village .
4 I 'd not been in London long and those lesbian and gay friends I had were involved in squatting more than gay liberation .
5 He 'd not been sexually insistent with Judith , for instance .
6 It was n't far from where he lived , just a stop further on the tube , but he 'd not been to the area before .
7 as if there 'd not been trouble enough with Daisy , without we 've this now .
8 Pavel knew that he 'd not been the best company but then , they had n't been treating this job as anything particularly special .
9 They 'd not been drabs either , those women .
10 She found herself regretting she 'd not been entirely open with him .
11 She 'd not been able to think what to say .
12 ‘ If you 'd not been there , he would have found another excuse , believe me . ’
13 Not only had I proved myself a liar but I 'd not been much good at school and did n't even get my leaving certificate .
14 And we found that about twenty two percent of the er , sheep being entered , had been dipped within the period , so in other words they 'd not been withheld , so it 's a concern .
15 The complication has been that because last year 's trading profits were lower than expected we did n't have any taxable profits against which to claim back this A C T so as this would be the first year in which taxable profits would arise unless we 'd not been unless we 'd been able to find some other way of dealing with it the A C T which we pay would not have been recoverable till January ninety five .
16 UNTIL Saturday we 'd not been to Meadowbank Stadium since July 1986 , the distinctly unlucky 13th Commonwealth Games .
17 No them 's just the on the if there 'd not been any change to the croft and that there 'd still the old rent .
18 And when I , I mean when I , I actu actually felt quite emotional cos I 'd not been to Park to see a match for a long time and I mean we 're living up here erm , and er , I just felt quite emotional when I got out and saw that lovely pitch it was in perfect
19 oh no you could n't you 'd not been messing with that all that long
20 I was just wondering , would you have imposed these very high home care charges if you 'd not been forced to by the cuts imposed by the Poll Tax capping .
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