Example sentences of "he 'd be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He 'd been at the wrong end when a small company went bust in the city . |
| 32 | He 'd been at school with Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | And this man he was a regular dustbin , dustbin man and he 'd been at it all his life and he used to play cards with us and his family , his sons , and , and as many else as got any money to play pontoon or brag . |
| 36 | He said he 'd been at Parkhead recently ( his son is in the reserves ) and Billy Bremner had been there . |
| 37 | Did he tell you that he 'd been at flat I mean years before or near the date of this or what ? |
| 38 | In the week that he 'd been at the helm of the Anpetuwi ship there had been a remarkable change in atmosphere . |
| 39 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 40 | Rory knew because he 'd been with mum once when they 'd met Lachy and a woman in the street in Lochgilphead . |
| 41 | Of their evening together , of how forthcoming he 'd been with his information . |
| 42 | " I made that excuse for him last year when he 'd been with us six months . |
| 43 | The watchmaker confirmed he 'd been with him at two . |
| 44 | She hoped so , hoped he was being as scathing with him as he 'd been with herself . |
| 45 | I was reading somewhere this morning where he 'd been with eight clubs in one season . |
| 46 | He 'd been with him years . |
| 47 | Erm the other thing that , that I could n't quite hear but I thought when you were asking him about where he 'd been with the navy , I thought he said to the Far East unfortunately . |
| 48 | He 'd been with them for twenty seven years . |
| 49 | ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time . |
| 50 | I do n't think he 'd been for about six month . |
| 51 | Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days . |
| 52 | Philip saw a photograph of the house he 'd been to with Mrs Wright , only it was a different time of year . |
| 53 | Did n't Tumbleweed say he 'd been to the fair before ? |
| 54 | ‘ Doone phoned me yesterday to say he 'd been to the boatyard and taken away some objects for which he would give me a receipt . ’ |
| 55 | Sergei 's bed had n't been slept in , and presumably he 'd been to bed with Masha . |
| 56 | How awful he 'd been to Laura , how unforgivable . |
| 57 | He tried to deny he 'd been to the village at first , but when I told him I 'd watched his every move he said he 'd gone for toothpaste and avoided our constables because he did n't think they 'd allow him to go out . ’ |
| 58 | Said he 'd been to a party . |
| 59 | He may well be a transvestite , but I ca n't help wondering whether the make-up was simply a blind to ‘ Prove ’ , as it were , that he 'd been to a party that night , in case anyone picked him up . |
| 60 | And he did n't have to explain where he 'd been to a wife who has different ideas of a swinging time . |