Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd be [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been made a lance-corporal just before we left and had been put in charge of a group of boys . |
| 2 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 3 | Only to wish that I 'd been born a boy . ’ |
| 4 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 5 | I do n't think I could have handled it if I 'd been given a sentence . |
| 6 | I 'd been given a hint that something like this could be on the cards when I was first approached . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping . |
| 8 | So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd been to have a bun and a squint at Mrs Y 's telly , or , to put it another way , Inspector , doing a pastoral visit to a sick member of the congregation . ’ |
| 10 | I 'd been widowed a year when we met . |
| 11 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 12 | I 'd been doing a bit of photojournalism and had always wanted to see and photograph the world . |
| 13 | And the circumfe and erm diameter on I 'd been cutting a lot of them down , the diameter of them was from four foot to about six foot . |
| 14 | I 'd been told a lot of stories |
| 15 | I 'd been researching an article for an historical magazine . |
| 16 | I 'd been having a bit of a go about putting your hand up but every time he put his hand up I 'm bending over somebody or I 'm in a different part of the room . |
| 17 | Both Jenny and Kathleen were up to various things and I 'd been having a go myself , but although my name was appearing on more and more waiting lists , nothing substantial seemed to be happening . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd been offered a couple of things in the league , and I could have gone to Kuwait or South Africa . |
| 19 | I 'd finished my foundation year earlier that summer and , although I 'd been offered a fulltime place — and grant — to do my Fine Art degree in painting , I blew it out . |
| 20 | Some might say that you 'd been given a job and failed to do it . |
| 21 | It would n't matter if you 'd been promised a king 's ransom if you achieved a lucky jump to the scorpion . |
| 22 | Now you can work out for yourselves that if you 'd been betting a pound on each of those horses you 'd have finished up substantially down . |
| 23 | If she 'd been given a test she could have been treated . |
| 24 | Dot wished she 'd been given a bed nearer one of the windows so she could see out , or at least by the door . |
| 25 | She 'd been given a rail warrant to Lowestoft , where the RTO had handed her over to the navy . |
| 26 | It was as if she 'd been given a glimpse of paradise , and then had it barred to her forever . |
| 27 | Without consulting her it began to move faster , inciting her lover to a rhythm which he responded to triumphantly , accelerating in time with their heartbeats , taking her with him towards the culmination she 'd been given a foretaste of , which paled in comparison to the flooding rapture which overtook her seconds before Penry gasped , stiffened , then crushed her in his arms as their breathing slowed in the shared diminuendo of the aftermath . |
| 28 | as if she 'd been wearing a coat of many many colours , and , beached on the desert island shore of Pity Me , had shredded the damn shrunken thing . |
| 29 | ‘ If she 'd been wearing a helmet , she might have lived , ’ says Officer Carmine Menchel , who visited the scene later . |
| 30 | No , that would be I do n't really think of that when I , I do n't think I do n't think anybody went to see her , but I think she 'd been done a bit better . |