Example sentences of "'d be [verb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They felt they 'd been made fools of … and the ring is some sort of family heirloom and his father went on as if it was all Rick 's fault that Angy had made off with it . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Actually I was really happy about that , not just because we 'd been made Singe Of The Week , but because it was a woman reviewing the singles — and they 're a lot harder to please . |
| 3 | ‘ He looks as if he 'd been made King of the Harem . ’ |
| 4 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 5 | How dared he believe that she 'd been taking money from Travis to pay her way ? |
| 6 | I mean when you 're on picket line it 's very depressing it 's very heart breaking unless you get some comedian or something you know it gets er y you do n't know what to do with yourself and perhaps they 'd been taking pots of this paint I 'm not saying . |
| 7 | ‘ She 'd been taking hush-money for the last ten years . ’ |
| 8 | At the Court of Appeal today , Rachael 's solicitor explained that he 'd been frightened of losing the children , and that for several weeks before the killing he 'd been taking medication for depression . |
| 9 | Oh she 'd been taking Matthew to work . |
| 10 | It had happened up and down the land , and Steve White said even he 'd been given £10,000 for an earlier move between Luton and Charlton Athletic . |
| 11 | They 'd been given names by the local people — the Grand Canyon , the Great Wall of China — on account of the strangeness of their formations . |
| 12 | Erm in short Adam had been given erm lordship over the earth and all its creatures and with that he 'd been given lordship over all human beings and the kings of this earth have inherited that lordship , that dominion . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’ |
| 14 | He 'd been dropping drives at my feet on the beach in practice . |
| 15 | Because he 'd been seeing psychiatrists since 1950 he fancied he was an expert on Freud and wanted to sit in on all our discussions . |
| 16 | It is a work that could have been written by a man who 'd been writing operas for twenty years and it introduced me to Ben 's remarkable sense of theatre . |
| 17 | You , you , you 've all hea heard of Marie Curie , famous erm scientist who pioneered a lot of the work on radioactivity in the early part of this century and the last part of the last century she in fact was Polish , lived in , in , in Paris , married a French man called Pierre er hence she 's known as Marie Curie well Pierre Curie was also a scientist and he was er baffled by the affect that , th the fact that there did n't seem to be any biological affects er certainly the doses of radiation that , that they were , they were getting they 'd handled tons and tons of pitchblende , that 's radioactive ore they extracted several grammes of radium from it , they 'd been handling stuff for years they were n't ill , they obviously had n't died and so on . |
| 18 | He told the hearing that the night before the body was found , he 'd been to visit Hawkins with another man Michael Talbot . |
| 19 | Ever since Dad 's death , she 'd been reading letters from her mother singing Romano 's praises , and detailing the dangerous sports she 'd been encouraged to take up by the wretched man … |
| 20 | He 'd been receiving treatment for depression and friends believe he committed suicide . |
| 21 | A European commission has ruled he 'd been denied access to justice and refused freedom of speech which could open the way for the new hearing . |
| 22 | We 'd been providing cover for the convoy , when a vehicle went over a land mine . |
| 23 | It was only when I did n't , and we 'd been making love without contraceptives for months and months , that I decided he must have been right . ’ |
| 24 | She apologised of course ; I gathered she 'd been talking quilts with a fellow enthusiast and had forgotten the time . |
| 25 | Tonight he 'd been running swabs from the theatres down to the furnace room , in sealed bags and boxes that had been taped and marked with every imaginable hazard warning . |
| 26 | When Douglas MacArthur returned to America , MacArthur had not been back to America since nineteen forty one this is ten years later , he 'd been running Japan in the meantime there was one of these huge ticker-tape parades in New York , he was the welcoming hero and President Truman was seen as the villain and some analysts argue that that decision , that single decision to sack MacArthur may well have cost Harry Truman the American presidency . |
| 27 | It 's you know and my pride was getting a little bit dented that I 'd been selling market for years suddenly I was n't doing this . |
| 28 | The voice was not what I 'd have expected from a girl who 'd been playing house with a mug like Mahoney . |
| 29 | I 'd been playing slide for years and I found myself in a blues band . |
| 30 | He 'd been directing traffic at a census point in Weedon , Northamptonshire . |