Example sentences of "'d been [verb] with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It appears there 'd been a big row and a parting of the ways before my agent tracked them down , but my premise was right : they 'd been staying with one of Svend 's college friends at his parents ’ apartment on the outskirts of the city . |
| 2 | She 'd been living with one of his men , a guy who knew a lot about his affairs , and Connie could n't help knowing plenty of things that Bonanza would not want advertised on the radio . ’ |
| 3 | Maybe she 'd always had someone to look after her ; he 'd been living with darned socks and the stitch-in-time philosophy all his life , first his mother and then Margaret , who sorted her stockings out into ones she could wear to the office and ones which were only good for gardening . |
| 4 | She 'd been strangled with some kind of flex or cord . |
| 5 | But of course we were very strongly against it really but er , because th you know we 'd been inundated with all these marvellous ideas of this progress and it 's all for the best and everything , but it does n't seemed to have work does it really ? |
| 6 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 7 | It was an appreciative whistle and one that Rachel recognised , for since she 'd been working with five thousand men she had become well used to whistles of that nature . |
| 8 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 9 | The vasectomy dated from 1980 , when a girl I 'd been sleeping with told me she was embarazada . |