Example sentences of "[vb past] he 'd [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he made a couple of phone calls to Osnabrück-he found he 'd been given a room with an Engineer regiment-then sipped a lager until train time . |
| 2 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |
| 3 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
| 4 | But tonight he said he believed he 'd been punished enough . |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose they showed he 'd been drinking ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps I should sell the place and be done with it , ’ he said with an abruptness that showed he 'd been considering the idea for some time . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Yet he claimed he 'd been adopted . |
| 9 | Anthony Gallagher wept in the dock as he heard he 'd been found not guilty of causing the deaths by reckless driving . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 12 | It meant he 'd been laid off again at the stocking factory . |
| 13 | On the night Sgt lilley died he 'd been drinking again . |
| 14 | Brownlow felt he 'd been rebuked and it irritated him . |
| 15 | Harry knew he 'd been hit in the aircraft , feeling now the wetness of blood inside his shirt and trousers , although the wounds did n't hurt , only causing numbness . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | From the other end came a gasp and he knew he 'd been heard . |
| 19 | I had to make sure he knew he 'd been duped . ’ |
| 20 | Marcus appeared in next-door 's back garden which surprised me as last I knew he 'd been snoring under the duvet . |
| 21 | She knew he 'd been studying her face while watching for her reaction . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He says he knows cases where wives were n't given , and there were then very serious er conflicts broken up , because the man who did n't get the wife then thought he 'd been cheated and apparently his complaint was you know er wife I give you my foreskin . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | For a second Donna thought he 'd been standing there looking at her , this man in the leather jacket and trousers which were too short . |
| 26 | He dodged behind a bus and I thought he 'd been knocked down . |
| 27 | We thought he 'd been knocked over by a hit and run driver . ’ |
| 28 | At first he thought he 'd been burgled , but he was astonished to find when he called the police that they 'd done it . |
| 29 | The pupils thought he 'd been brought in specially for their benefit and turned up the next week with more surrealistic pieces . |
| 30 | I heard a scuffle outside and presumed he 'd been escorted from the building , but before leaving he pushed a News of the World Christmas card under the door offering me £40,000 for an interview . |