Example sentences of "he 'd be [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been along all these paths before . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Although before this year he 'd been to fewer golf tournaments than we had cold drinks on that hot September afternoon , he still has fond memories of watching Arnold Palmer win the Colonial NIT close to his hometown of Dallas in 1962 . |
| 5 | He 'd been like that once , he 'd trusted and believed , and look what had happened to him . |
| 6 | He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long . |