Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] 'd be [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said the miners were being asked to accept wages that were even lower than they 'd been before the war and that their working conditions were appalling . |
| 2 | The truth of it was that he was even less certain of her now than he 'd been at the beginning ; how she thought , the way she might react as the world around her changed . |
| 3 | When she 'd calmed down she asked me if I 'd been to the doctors , and we made arrangements for her to take me down . |
| 4 | Elsie B graced me with a long chat which made me feel as if I 'd been in the presence of royalty , though I suspect not too many members of the Royal Family are at their desk as early as Elsie . |
| 5 | " If I 'd been in the political arena I 'd have shouted . |
| 6 | all of them so when her class came up , cos she 'd been with the class right from nursery and when she put into this you know , with the double third year , cos they go upstairs for third and fourth year and they really do classes below she did n't know anything in the class ! |
| 7 | I think she thought I was crying at firs , I think I might have been , but then she started laughing too , with her face all twisted to one side as if she 'd been to the dentist , and she kept gasping and saying , " Ooh , it hurts ! |
| 8 | If she 'd been in the kid 's place , she 'd have run off by now and left them all to it . |
| 9 | Six very powerful torches okay , if you 'd been in the war , you know what the answer to that was . |
| 10 | You would of been divorced if you 'd been in the middle |
| 11 | Ah ! rang , you should have said you could n't pick me up cos you 'd been to the pub . |
| 12 | Several of them enquired if we 'd been to the races ( we all had ) and had backed the winner ( no , we had n't ) . |
| 13 | And whereas , if we 'd been in the Lake District we 'd have got a tan , so it just depends . |
| 14 | All of which explained that when I arrived at the BMC 's International Meet halfway through the week , the climbers that drifted into breakfast that morning looked like they 'd been on the receiving end of a very nasty artillery barrage . |
| 15 | So I suppose if he 'd been on the Road every day he 'd have won the Open ! |
| 16 | If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train … |
| 17 | However the assignment took a little bit longer than it er than if he 'd been on the other product range . |
| 18 | So you , you could put him into property , erm but erm I do n't know if he 'd been in the U K for the last few years whether he 'd be that keen on commercial property . |
| 19 | Well , his theory was that this guy was a writer or something , a historian or somebody like that , and Freud said it 's quite likely that in the past he had had either dreams about a similar dream or conscious fantasies about how he would have felt if he 'd been in the French Revolution and what might have happened to him . |
| 20 | Erm that probably because they 'd been at the bottom so long , er it did n't appear that there was |
| 21 | Her teeth gritted together to stop herself screaming , she rocked backwards and forwards like a child , oblivious to the drizzle that had begun while she 'd been in the kitchen with Gwen as disjointed sentences jostled in her brain for supremacy . |
| 22 | While she 'd been in the galley Fen had fallen asleep . |
| 23 | ‘ After I 'd been at the shop roughly eighteen months — that was in August 1914 — the Great War broke out ; and as two of our workmen joined the armed forces I had more or less to be pushed on . |
| 24 | Some days after I 'd been to the supermarket for the week 's shopping I 'd be smashed , there 'd be nothing left . |
| 25 | ‘ He says he phoned Maurin after you 'd been to the hotel because he wanted to report that you were asking questions about Barbara . |
| 26 | Yeah er cover was the one that , after we 'd been through the document , I did find of be of particular interest |
| 27 | That evening , Abu Salim came to chain Brian and me up after we 'd been to the bathroom . |
| 28 | We 'd hoped that such irritations were behind us , but then they started taking toothpaste and soap away from us after we 'd been to the bathroom . |
| 29 | I remember wandering with Donald somewhere in the East End after we 'd been to the Whitechapel and we saw a group of teddies standing round two middle-aged Indians . |
| 30 | The Marquess of Blandford is back in prison tonight , charged with assualting two police officers who were trying to arrest him after he 'd been on the run for four days . |