Example sentences of "there 'd been a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd looked forward to it for ages , there 'd been a build-up but it was quite different for her . ’ |
| 2 | If there 'd been a trail of destruction down the road , then fair enough , but |
| 3 | While I had been in there there 'd been a day or two of beautiful weather which we did n't know much about inside , although there was one big window where we used to go and sit and have a smoke — the ones who were getting better — and you could see a big tree from there , so you sort of felt it must be nice outside , and the people who came in from outside were n't so muffled up . |
| 4 | ‘ If there 'd been a way to avoid this mess , we 're experienced enough in the business to have spotted it ! ’ |
| 5 | Wiltshire Coroner John Elgar recorded a verdict of death by natural causes , saying there was no reason to suggest there 'd been a lack of care or self-neglect . |
| 6 | He would n't have minded so much if there 'd been a rise somewhere along the line — a moment of triumph , no matter how brief — but he 'd gone from children 's programmes to women 's programmes to the Devil in one slow , unspectacular but continuous slide . |
| 7 | When Gloria complained , there 'd been a tiff and they 'd had to leave . |
| 8 | After that , there 'd been a bit of a void between floundering furiously in the deep waters of the Mediterranean — her denims weighing her down and her bikini-top , evidently not refastened securely enough , doing a treacherous disappearing act — and being hauled into strong male arms , dragged aboard a strange boat , then deposited on a plush banquette seat , feeling decidedly under-dressed for the occasion … |
| 9 | In her first term at St Cecilia 's there 'd been a girl who 'd had the gift of levitation , a disturbed girl called Julie who had been able to float eight feet above the ground , whom Miss Scuse had eventually had to have removed . |
| 10 | There 'd been a smell of roses , and of coffee . |
| 11 | There 'd been a cowboy film on telly that afternoon and all the little ones had come out in their cowboy hats and were firing caps off at cats and down letter-boxes . |
| 12 | It 's different it 's , they 're damp it 's different if there 'd been a hole and the water was coming in . |
| 13 | At least , she thought she was — until the day before her flight , when a DSD representative phoned and told her there 'd been a change of plan . |
| 14 | Back at the start of March there 'd been a shake . |
| 15 | There 'd been a decade of de-skilling said Mr Kinnock , but Labour would set in motion a national training strategy . |
| 16 | There 'd been a master at Ravenswood , a man called Funny Stiles who 'd been given the sack because he 'd made boys presents of whistles and fountain-pens . |
| 17 | It 's only just been serviced so I would have had something to say if there 'd been a problem . |
| 18 | Last spring there 'd been a blackbird 's nest in the tree by the goal-post in the school playing-fields . |
| 19 | If there 'd been a fight , then I must have won it . |
| 20 | When he was accused , quite erroneously , of siphoning money from school funds he honestly believed that everyone would realise that there 'd been a mistake . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ We went past a house where there 'd been a wedding , ’ said Lili , ‘ the night before . |
| 22 | There 'd been a frost in the night , but now in the mid-afternoon the sun on our backs was strong and warm . |
| 23 | There 'd been a fault in her original logic which he 'd seized upon , but she was already beginning to see the fallacy . |
| 24 | There 'd been a repeat of the sensational reports about Waite — he 'd died of a heart attack in an Iranian prison camp and his body returned to Beirut , or the island of Cyprus was on alert for his imminent release — and a three-day series on all the hostages in the Independent , but there was still no questioning of government policy nor a proper analysis of what was really happening . |
| 25 | There 'd been a photograph of it in the paper , across someone 's hedge , its wings in a tree . |
| 26 | Er , would have been nice if there 'd been a rock or something for one of them to break over . |
| 27 | There 'd been a lot of changes under the malais , I 'll give them that , even if most of the development was for reasons of military necessity and accomplished , like the Japanese for whom they had more than a sneaking admiration , with forced-draft labour . |
| 28 | But as he cut into one using a power saw , an alarm sounded , and he realised there 'd been a leak of radioactive tritium gas . |
| 29 | But in times gone by , there 'd been a feast at ban pasāi ; the women had brought rice and huge copper pans to the forest . |
| 30 | You said that er when when people called at er when there 'd been a death would that be calling to see ? |