Example sentences of "[pron] 'd been a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well er it was only I 'd been a wee while at er Birsay and a wee while at Crantit till I were back at Holland but it was a different farm I was in then it was a bit different . |
| 2 | I think I got that because of my tracheotomy — I think I probably should have gotten it before , but I 'd been a bad girl . |
| 3 | I 've said all along if I 'd been a white man with my ability , I feel I 'd be a wealthy man . |
| 4 | I 'd been a naughty boy , |
| 5 | It 's quite funny really because er I used to go off I had an agreement with the headmaster at that particular time and he 'd h I 'd been a full time teacher with him , and he needed somebody desperately , that was the only reason obviously he wanted me back , and er I said Well look I can come back but I ca n't get back in order to go to the assembly at first . |
| 6 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |
| 7 | In the 1920s , she 'd been a great beauty and a sharp dresser . |
| 8 | Dear God , she was nothing but skin and bone , and she 'd been a tiny slip of a thing to start with . |
| 9 | In real life she 'd been a poor shepherdess who lived in a dungeon and had asthma . |
| 10 | Meg realized she 'd been a complete fool . |
| 11 | On the few occasions she 'd spent holidays at home she 'd been a social outcast among her contemporaries . |
| 12 | It was n't IMP 's fault , or hers , that he had started at Jerez in third position , but she 'd been a convenient whipping-boy for his suspicions . |
| 13 | While their father accepted that they were both of an age where they wanted to fly the nest , their mother , who , it had to be said , doted on her son — who 'd been a constant source of worry to her — took a little longer . |
| 14 | There 'd been a slight brush with Gallaghers car which was going in excess of 40 mph . |
| 15 | so in all purp in , in always , the fact that you 'd come into this house made one realize that there 'd been a distinct change in one 's circumstances . |
| 16 | The numbers were thinning ; there 'd been a small brawl when Doris caught Charlie sitting at Sonia 's feet ; Jane had told Sonia off in no uncertain terms and dragged her off downstairs ; one neighbour had passed rather noisily out and been lugged home ; somebody had announced an engagement . |
| 17 | Right so after nineteen forty five there cer there certainly would have been a momentum towards this in the areas where there 'd been a strong Japanese presence because there would be more collaborators and there would be some more obvious targets . |
| 18 | He just said there 'd been a terrible misunderstanding , and you would n't listen when he tried to explain . ’ |
| 19 | It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why . |
| 20 | That 's in case there 'd been a nasty accident , say there was an accident outside the school today , yes ? |
| 21 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 22 | If it was obvious that there 'd been a false declaration . |
| 23 | Existence had battered him , he said , remaining where he was , seeming not to have heard her : there 'd been a different child once . |
| 24 | ‘ Well , that 's exactly what you 'd get if there 'd been a big explosion with everything starting out from the same place . |
| 25 | ‘ It appears there 'd been a big row and a parting of the ways before my agent tracked them down , but my premise was right : they 'd been staying with one of Svend 's college friends at his parents ’ apartment on the outskirts of the city . |
| 26 | There 'd been a big square of white cloth amongst them , which a group of nomes had managed to tie around the human 's mouth after its mooing got on everyone 's nerves . |
| 27 | There 'd been a big robbery in Dublin : hundred thousand taken and the bank manager shot dead . ’ |
| 28 | There 'd been a whole day 's racing at Goodwood , two afternoons at Wimbledon for the semi-finals and finals , the Eton and Harrow cricket match , a day at Henley and invitations to lunch and dinner parties , the theatre , the opera and then on to one of the nightclubs . |
| 29 | It was grey , and strangely motionless , as if there 'd been a sudden rush of concrete to his head , |
| 30 | There 'd been a beautiful poster in the early 1970s showing a pregnant woman in a flowing dress and headed ‘ WOMAN POWER ’ . |