Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] he 'd be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did a double-take before I realized he 'd been talking to me . |
| 2 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |
| 3 | My dear , he was holding it exactly as if it had been a squashed blackbeetle , and I knew he 'd been criticizing me all evening . |
| 4 | Marcus appeared in next-door 's back garden which surprised me as last I knew he 'd been snoring under the duvet . |
| 5 | He dodged behind a bus and I thought he 'd been knocked down . |
| 6 | Now she realised he 'd been hovering on the verges of her thoughts , just waiting for an opportunity to pounce . |
| 7 | A woman in Naples recently insisted on having her husband 's grave dug up — after she realised he 'd been buried with £3,500 in his jacket pocket . |
| 8 | At that time , and erm she had n't known anything about it , because he had looked after the benefit , and she thought he 'd been paying the rent . |
| 9 | She knew he 'd been studying her face while watching for her reaction . |
| 10 | We thought he 'd been knocked over by a hit and run driver . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose they showed he 'd been drinking ? ’ |
| 12 | What would these people think , I wondered , if they knew he 'd been living like an Apache most of his life and right up until a little while ago ? |
| 13 | They said he 'd been killed outright |
| 14 | She laughed at the thought of his face next morning when he realised he 'd been outwitted it was n't hard to do . |
| 15 | But tonight he said he believed he 'd been punished enough . |
| 16 | Yet he claimed he 'd been adopted . |
| 17 | Anthony Gallagher wept in the dock as he heard he 'd been found not guilty of causing the deaths by reckless driving . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Bobby Vinton 's ‘ Blue Velvet ’ is this week 's network chart number one ; he has n't had a hit since the nineteen sixties , and when he was told of his success in America , he thought he 'd been made the victim of a Jeremy Beadle style prank . |
| 20 | At first he thought he 'd been burgled , but he was astonished to find when he called the police that they 'd done it . |
| 21 | From the other end came a gasp and he knew he 'd been heard . |
| 22 | I had to make sure he knew he 'd been duped . ’ |
| 23 | It meant he 'd been laid off again at the stocking factory . |
| 24 | He said he 'd been followed for the last week or so . |
| 25 | He said he 'd been to see Ben who was living on the Jonquil . |
| 26 | He said he 'd been wanting to ring me all day but did n't want to interrupt my work . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He said he 'd been feeling depressed . |
| 29 | He said he 'd been driving along Akers Way in Swindon at between 40 and 60 miles per hour , when he became aware of Shaun Gooch behind him . |
| 30 | He said he 'd been meaning to invite us to dinner ever since he arrived . |