Example sentences of "[pers pn] 'd been [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 2 | I 'd been falling since nineteen |
| 3 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 4 | She 'd been waylaid within ten feet of the front door , which did n't surprise me , by a chinless wonder in a baggy suit and powder blue trainers ( nobody wears trainers with a suit any more ) . |
| 5 | She 'd been living with one of his men , a guy who knew a lot about his affairs , and Connie could n't help knowing plenty of things that Bonanza would not want advertised on the radio . ’ |
| 6 | It was an appreciative whistle and one that Rachel recognised , for since she 'd been working with five thousand men she had become well used to whistles of that nature . |
| 7 | He said she 'd been raped at 18 by a Lebanese man in London . |
| 8 | She 'd been missing for 24 hours , her disappearance reported by her boyfriend , himself arrested and questioned by police , but then released . |
| 9 | She 'd been divorced for 12 years . |
| 10 | We 'd been visited by 700 people . |
| 11 | Almost without exception we 'd been knocked for six . |
| 12 | ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family . |
| 13 | They 'd been queuing since 5 a.m. in the morning and as the wait continued , so did the length of the queue . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | And then maybe after it 'd been cut for two days , you were sent out to turn the swathes , up all you went along and you turned them and turned them . |
| 16 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
| 17 | He 'd been held for eleven days . |
| 18 | ‘ He 'd been held for four months . |
| 19 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 20 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 21 | His pelvis fractured and back broken , he 'd been hospitalized for eighteen months , was undergoing final therapy and still a lieutenant in the Finnish Air Force when , on June 25 , 1941 , Finland joined forces with Nazi Germany and declared war on Russia . |
| 22 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |