Example sentences of "[pers pn] he 'd [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The last time I saw him he 'd been drinking pretty heavily and he pushed me about a bit . |
| 2 | Vernon told him he 'd been taken home in a chauffeur-driven car . |
| 3 | Very little apart from his outward appearance , and when he had n't been teasing her he 'd been carelessly kind to her when they met . |
| 4 | He told her he 'd been married once , long ago , but had been so bitterly hurt that , although he loved women , could n't live without them , he had never been prepared to trust his life to one ever again . |
| 5 | ‘ He did tell me he 'd been to the house , ’ I said . |
| 6 | I found some brandy and it steadied him a bit … and then he told me he 'd been to Angy 's flat and found her dead . ’ |
| 7 | He told me he applied but I thought he told me he 'd been turned down . |
| 8 | The lad next to me he 'd been three times ! |
| 9 | But he did n't tell me he 'd been going out with her for three weeks and he 's never . |
| 10 | He told me he 'd been to . |
| 11 | Zen had told them he 'd been involved in a traffic accident , which had got a good laugh all round when it emerged that he was from Venice . |
| 12 | We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it . |