Example sentences of "he 'd be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had fancied being a poet when he was a boy — before he 'd been thrust out into the real world to try to earn a living . |
| 2 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 3 | He 'd been pottering around in the big old half-ruined sheds on the other side of the quarry , one day back in the summer . |
| 4 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 5 | as if he 'd been cut out of tin . |
| 6 | He passed the day skulking around cafes , and when Georges met him by chance later on he confessed he 'd been beaten up in his flat because he 'd agreed to do a favour for someone and it had gone wrong . |
| 7 | Yes , yes , but erm , you know , I have had to say to the chaps , one of them came in and he said he 'd been spoiled down at the cedar and I said oh well , I , I 've been cooking a breakfast for Neil of course by the operation of sods law , Neil suddenly goes off the idea of having breakfast , so I find myself cooking breakfast for this other lump , who is as idol and selfish as anybody ever met in all the born days , and I said to him just recently , I said , I , I ca n't get up and do breakfast 's in the morning any more , well he says he come 's down and does he 's own , you see they can when they feel that they want too . |
| 8 | Er w and he 'd been turned down by and all the other er top lawyers in |
| 9 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
| 10 | After he 'd been coaxed out of the cart in the yard , three serving women had carried him into the house . |
| 11 | Glancing at his watch , Donaldson saw that it was after five ; seven hours since he 'd been picked up at the courtroom , during which time he 'd skipped lunch and spent his afternoon handing tidbits to a bright primate . |
| 12 | There he 'd been picked up by his mother Ruth . |
| 13 | What he 'd been leading up to all week ? |
| 14 | He 'd been brought up on a steady diet of blood , sweat and tears and Douglas Bader . |
| 15 | He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale . |
| 16 | He could n't speak Arabic , as he 'd been brought up in Zanzibar . |
| 17 | I think he was an Aberdonian really the way he spoke anyway but he 'd been brought up in Blair Gowrie . |
| 18 | She wondered how he would be now if he 'd been brought up in the Down Manor Orphanage . |
| 19 | We thought he 'd been knocked over by a hit and run driver . ’ |
| 20 | But he did n't tell me he 'd been going out with her for three weeks and he 's never . |
| 21 | ‘ He 'd been taken back to Germany for slave labour . |
| 22 | William who was a widower told his son he could believe he 'd been taken in by the conmen . |
| 23 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 24 | If he 'd been thrown out of a window . ’ |
| 25 | Maybe he 'd been scared off by the snow and taken Caspar home . |
| 26 | Whatever evidence the IAAF officials discovered in the laboratory , one only needed to look at recent pictures of Johnson , in which he resembled an inflated balloon , to guess that his improved times showed he 'd been sucked back into the drug culture . |
| 27 | Dad said , and it must have cost him a lot to say so little after he 'd been put down by me , ‘ I 've decided I want to be with Eva . ’ |
| 28 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |