Example sentences of "[subord] he 'd be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The truth of it was that he was even less certain of her now than he 'd been at the beginning ; how she thought , the way she might react as the world around her changed . |
| 2 | ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time . |
| 3 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 4 | No , it would n't have surprised me if he 'd been at his easel while I was painting the town red ! |
| 5 | So I suppose if he 'd been on the Road every day he 'd have won the Open ! |
| 6 | If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train … |
| 7 | However the assignment took a little bit longer than it er than if he 'd been on the other product range . |
| 8 | He felt as if he 'd been inside a cell ever since his arrest , imprisoned within his own mind . |
| 9 | If he 'd been in Eden , he would have probably left apple cores strewn all around the garden . |
| 10 | So you , you could put him into property , erm but erm I do n't know if he 'd been in the U K for the last few years whether he 'd be that keen on commercial property . |
| 11 | If he 'd been in deep water he would n't have been damaged so much and neither would he have surfaced yet , perhaps not for several more days . |
| 12 | Well , his theory was that this guy was a writer or something , a historian or somebody like that , and Freud said it 's quite likely that in the past he had had either dreams about a similar dream or conscious fantasies about how he would have felt if he 'd been in the French Revolution and what might have happened to him . |
| 13 | and erm I was feeling ill at the time and I , I wondered why because he 'd been through so much suffering , you know , it was a happy release . |
| 14 | Rory knew because he 'd been with mum once when they 'd met Lachy and a woman in the street in Lochgilphead . |
| 15 | It was an Unmentionable Disease , and he 'd caught it because he 'd been to an Unmentionable Place and so it served him right , but that did n't make it any less sore . |
| 16 | He must have been about my age , too , because he 'd been in Nagasaki when the bomb went on . |
| 17 | The Marquess of Blandford is back in prison tonight , charged with assualting two police officers who were trying to arrest him after he 'd been on the run for four days . |
| 18 | After he 'd been at Mandru for a while , Lucien learned that Mandru had refused to have any more boys from Por Tanssie after his last purchase from that academy had committed suicide . |
| 19 | The year before he 'd been into the whole Absolute Beginners scene and everything around him had to date from the late ‘ fifties , early ‘ sixties . |
| 20 | Getting him out of bed in the mornings in time for school became a real problem for his family when he 'd been up most of the night with pencil and note book . |
| 21 | She hoped so , hoped he was being as scathing with him as he 'd been with herself . |
| 22 | In her own way , she had been every bit as insulting to him as he 'd been to her . |
| 23 | It was an awful place : dreary , badly furnished and he was n't as clean as he 'd been in hospital — food all down his clothes and he had n't shaved , he really looked unkempt . |