Example sentences of "[coord] [pron] 'd [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been ordered to report to the Ministry by his Adjutant , and either there had been some colossal mistake or he 'd been sent for under false pretences . |
| 2 | ‘ And I 'd been thinking of you only yesterday . |
| 3 | I left before the tour was over because it was time for Mott The Hoople to come and tour and I 'd been designated as the person to take care of them , so I went off before it was over . |
| 4 | I mean the doctor was no help and I 'd been waiting for over a coupla months to get into the Clinic for a detox . |
| 5 | Mr Probyn is being questioned about the death of his wife , Tanya , who was 28 , and who 'd been missing for six days before her body was found in her car in the River Severn . |
| 6 | Once she 'd got known for being presentable , turning up sober and on time , not leaving early with the spoons and able to tell left hand from right , word got round and she 'd been passed from college to college by grateful manciples . |
| 7 | And she 'd been talking to him for about half an hour and well er her son had come up |
| 8 | And she 'd been coming to our house , Oh about fie or six years , and she said one day to Mary , that 's my wife , says you know , Not strange name , there 's not many of them about . |
| 9 | And she 'd been charmed with Bergerac itself . |
| 10 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 11 | ‘ I had jungle-boots on , and we 'd been walking through the forest all day . |
| 12 | The roadshow now belongs to the mythology of the miners , the leadership had made the effort , they 'd gone on the road , and they 'd been rewarded by a clutch of standing ovations . |
| 13 | We probably lost them on the Beltway , and they 'd been chasing round the Virginia countryside trying to pick me up … those things only have a range of about three miles . ’ |
| 14 | He 'd been funny , telling stories against himself of fiascos he had survived in the theatre , and he 'd been flattering in a subtle way . |
| 15 | And he worked it out , he took about three or four weeks to work it out , and he 'd been overcharged on the interest like . |
| 16 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 17 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 18 | The patient 's name was Wayne Benfield and he 'd been coming into the centre for daily dressings to an injured ankle . |
| 19 | 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 |
| 20 | And he 'd been apprenticed in Liverpool with a firm called they were ship repairers in Liverpool . |
| 21 | But it was after the war , when Magnus had driven the enemy from the land and he 'd been hailed as the new Emperor , that he performed what was to be his most significant act . |
| 22 | And he 'd been braced for the knife lunging out of the darkness . |
| 23 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 24 | I did n't know what to say , but I 'd been reading about mating in a book only a few days before , so I kept a perfectly straight face and replied . |
| 25 | I knew that from when I 'd gone to watch them play in the past , but I 'd been cured of insomnia for some time now . |
| 26 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 27 | Because of the arrow attack there had been uniformed patrols on the Barton estate … but they 'd been withdrawn before the chanting mob attacked |
| 28 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 29 | We 'd entered him in the Novice section , but he 'd been upgraded in the meantime . |
| 30 | Digging might not be classed as essential training , but he 'd been sent on attachment to learn all about real soldiering . |