Example sentences of "'d be [adj] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been lucky to get off with a year for that . |
| 2 | She 'd reassure him over and over that she was fine , she was safe , there was nothing for him to worry about , and Ashdown would then ring Joe and pass along anything new or helpful that he 'd been able to pick out of the conversation . |
| 3 | I was surprised I 'd been let in at all , surprised that I 'd been able to wander freely about the second and first floors of the cold labyrinthian building of stairwells , escalators and concrete locker-lined corridors . |
| 4 | Her early education had been poor because of the misconception amongst her teachers that language ability and intelligence were somehow different facts of a single concept , and it was only in later life , with the help of her husband , that she 'd been able to make up on the intellectual deprivation of those early years . |
| 5 | I 'd got the riding gear from Duncan , but he 'd been unable to come up with a red helmet with black visor . |