Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd [been] [adj] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe if I 'd been able to do some kind of planche , like your painter friend did on your … back , it would have been easy , but what I had to do was first try to get something akin to an erection standing at the copier of a deserted office on a holiday . |
| 2 | She 'd been lucky to get this flat and at a reasonable price , for accommodation in Branchester was n't easy to find . |
| 3 | But maybe she 'd been wrong to accept this job , wrong to come . |
| 4 | She 'd been slow to see that , and tried to make up for it by saying quickly : ‘ Her jumping over ca n't have helped Eismark 's career . ’ |
| 5 | Though , on reflection , she realised she 'd been silly to think that . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Gravellier felt nervous , so nervous he 'd been unable to eat any breakfast . |