Example sentences of "i 'd been a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I wish I 'd been a snobby old ratbag with some power on the Inverness-shire County Council planning committee in the 60s . |
| 2 | Well er it was only I 'd been a wee while at er Birsay and a wee while at Crantit till I were back at Holland but it was a different farm I was in then it was a bit different . |
| 3 | If I 'd been a religious and I would have thanked one god or another for the large number of kilocreds I was soon to collect , which would keep me from any kind of poverty for a long time . |
| 4 | I tumbled out of the nest , where I 'd been a cosseted only child , and into digs . |
| 5 | I think I got that because of my tracheotomy — I think I probably should have gotten it before , but I 'd been a bad girl . |
| 6 | I 've said all along if I 'd been a white man with my ability , I feel I 'd be a wealthy man . |
| 7 | I 'd been a naughty boy , |
| 8 | It 's quite funny really because er I used to go off I had an agreement with the headmaster at that particular time and he 'd h I 'd been a full time teacher with him , and he needed somebody desperately , that was the only reason obviously he wanted me back , and er I said Well look I can come back but I ca n't get back in order to go to the assembly at first . |
| 9 | It was erm it 's the first time that I 'd come across , I mean I 'd been a little bit of experience on , on inland waterways in Windsor er which I 'd lost when I went to Leicester and Lincoln I came back here of course and now we had the North Sea and the docks and erm that was a new area and a , and a really good challenge erm I particularly got involved with , with things like erm the movement of chemicals which was beginning to increase and coming into Felixstowe and , and er and , and er Ipswich erm and when I think back Felixstowe Dock , looking back , ended where the big jumbo tank , the Calor Gas tank is , that , that was the sort of range of Felixstowe Dock in those days . |