Example sentences of "'d [be] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only to wish that I 'd been born a boy . ’ |
| 2 | If he 'd been born an American he 'd have been high up in the CIA — and still informing Moscow … ’ |
| 3 | Though he did n't view the prospect with any sort of enthusiasm ( he 'd been sent a script , but had n't bothered to read it ) he knew that activity of some sort , something he had to do , was always better than nothing . |
| 4 | I 'd been made a lance-corporal just before we left and had been put in charge of a group of boys . |
| 5 | ‘ He 'd been called a wop and I was called a coon . |
| 6 | Dot wished she 'd been given a bed nearer one of the windows so she could see out , or at least by the door . |
| 7 | I do n't think I could have handled it if I 'd been given a sentence . |
| 8 | She 'd been given a rail warrant to Lowestoft , where the RTO had handed her over to the navy . |
| 9 | He 'd been given a position in prison administration in Paris , and Sylvia thought he might be of help to her in finding Madeleine and Jeanne . |
| 10 | If she 'd been given a test she could have been treated . |
| 11 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 12 | I 'd been given a pair of lime green webbed gloves as a wedding present by Roger , my surfing guru in Newquay . |
| 13 | I 'd been given a hint that something like this could be on the cards when I was first approached . ’ |
| 14 | But I sat in yesterday afternoon and I felt sorry for the man 's daughter who 'd been given a hymn the service . |
| 15 | A bandage round his head , a cup of tea in his blunt hands , he looked like the only survivor of some great catastrophe , and Nathan could understand exactly why he 'd been able to move India-May to tears and why he 'd been given a room on the first floor , one of the large ones , for nothing . |
| 16 | So he made a couple of phone calls to Osnabrück-he found he 'd been given a room with an Engineer regiment-then sipped a lager until train time . |
| 17 | Without consulting her it began to move faster , inciting her lover to a rhythm which he responded to triumphantly , accelerating in time with their heartbeats , taking her with him towards the culmination she 'd been given a foretaste of , which paled in comparison to the flooding rapture which overtook her seconds before Penry gasped , stiffened , then crushed her in his arms as their breathing slowed in the shared diminuendo of the aftermath . |
| 18 | Some might say that you 'd been given a job and failed to do it . |
| 19 | He 'd been given a meeting place he knew of . |
| 20 | It was as if she 'd been given a glimpse of paradise , and then had it barred to her forever . |
| 21 | No , that would be I do n't really think of that when I , I do n't think I do n't think anybody went to see her , but I think she 'd been done a bit better . |
| 22 | When he 'd been appointed a Minister he 'd handed over his parcel of shares to his wife , Leonora . |
| 23 | I 'd been widowed a year when we met . |
| 24 | I 'd been told a lot of stories |
| 25 | No they have n't , they 'd been bought a car that had been like , that it sort of been written off and rebuilt or something like that . |
| 26 | It would n't matter if you 'd been promised a king 's ransom if you achieved a lucky jump to the scorpion . |
| 27 | ‘ Then she told me she 'd been offered a part in Jane Eyre at Warrington rep and did I think she ought to accept . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'd been offered a couple of things in the league , and I could have gone to Kuwait or South Africa . |
| 29 | I 'd finished my foundation year earlier that summer and , although I 'd been offered a fulltime place — and grant — to do my Fine Art degree in painting , I blew it out . |
| 30 | ‘ She 'd been offered a job in America , nanny to a widower with two small children . |