Example sentences of "'d been [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " I feel worn out , much more than I would if I 'd been for miles on the moor . |
| 2 | He 'd been off drugs for six months when he died in that fire . ’ |
| 3 | Johnny Smart , who 'd been at Oxford with him and edited one of the university magazines , landed what seemed then an amazing job on the Evening Standard . |
| 4 | After he 'd been at Mandru for a while , Lucien learned that Mandru had refused to have any more boys from Por Tanssie after his last purchase from that academy had committed suicide . |
| 5 | He 'd been at school with Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen . |
| 6 | Both Lady Amory and Sir John liked to get their hands in the soil — they did all the planting and arranging of the beds themselves — but they also had two willing helpers , gardeners who 'd been at Knightshayes for years , and some foresters . |
| 7 | Mrs Clinton replied that she 'd been at college with him and they 'd had a very close relationship . |
| 8 | Buzz remembered Nurse Evans , who 'd been with Nell in Ward C at La Chapelle ; after the war , Evans had worked in one of those rich bins before she 'd married a Lutheran minister and gone to live in Scotland . |
| 9 | But she simply ignored him as she always had and began to practise with the yellow-haired vibrancer who 'd been with Jeopardy in Mandru 's salon on the morning Lucien had met the master . |
| 10 | I was suicidal , one day I 'd been on top of the world |
| 11 | She 'd been on anti-depressants for the last 4 years since her husband walked out on her to live with another woman . |
| 12 | One of the managers that come in and he 'd been on holiday for two weeks , but he knew ! |
| 13 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 14 | Detective Sergeant Burgess went off to report to his Superintendent , and Redpath , who 'd been on duty since midnight , decided to try for a few hours ' sleep . |
| 15 | I 'd been on duty in the Met Office since 8am , and managed to comb my hair and put on some lipstick before going straight down to the dance with June , one of the other Met Waafs . |
| 16 | I mean , I did get work at his mill in the summer of ‘ forty I 'd been on t'dole for four years , since I left school — but he went into the RAF not long after , and I did n't see him again till late ‘ forty-six . |
| 17 | Er they 'd been to chapel with them , been to school with them , worked in other places with them , and it ended like it did . |
| 18 | Sergei 's bed had n't been slept in , and presumably he 'd been to bed with Masha . |
| 19 | I 'd been to sea for a few years . |
| 20 | And he was telling , you know erm it was the er Christmas thing , he was t saying he 'd been to France on a cheap ticket had n't he ? |
| 21 | ‘ Sealed envelope with Mme Wyatt , ’ he replied , laying an uncharacteristic finger against his nose as if this was what he 'd been to spy-school for . |
| 22 | er somebody said well the , the table 's , we 'd been to French in the morning and I had n't realized that the table 's |
| 23 | Well , I dropped in one evening , a summer evening it was , as I recall it , after I 'd been to dinner at the Chelsea Arts Club and I felt in urgent need of a little female company . |
| 24 | He 'd been to Wewelsburg on several occasions , had even inspected the castle 's plans at SD headquarters , so knew it well . |
| 25 | She could almost smell the rich fermentation of silage like there 'd been around parts of Ecoville , or the green alkali of the air-plants . |
| 26 | But if you 'd been in trial in America |
| 27 | And and lots of churches that he was telling us that he 'd been in contact with . |
| 28 | ‘ If she 'd been in love with Henry she 'd have agreed to be his mistress — not made him wait seven years for a divorce before she let him take her to bed . |
| 29 | He 'd been in love with Arianna , you could hear it in his voice . |
| 30 | Darren had been dead a couple of months ; I had fallen out with my father and I 'd been in London for most of the summer , staying with Aunt Ilsa and her long-term companion , whose only name appeared to be Mr Gibbon , which I thought made him sound like a cat for some reason … |