Example sentences of "'d be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 31 | Perhaps he 'd been referring to someone else as well ? |
| 32 | She 'd replaced the receiver instantly and refused to tell him who she 'd been speaking to , but then , as now , there was something challenging in her expression . |
| 33 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 34 | ‘ Father wanted someone to inherit who knew Venice and had been taught the business , someone who 'd been trained to the position . ’ |
| 35 | If she 'd been pretending to be busy before , she really was busy now . |
| 36 | I began to forget why I 'd been attracted to him in the first place . ’ |
| 37 | I phoned and the man that I needed to speak to was not there , he 'd been seconded to the Himalayas or something , he was only coming back erm , in the middle of January , I was in , erm , November or whatever it was , I was giving a few days ' grace , and then I was going to call . |
| 38 | I read everything I could find about France ( since France was my dream country , where I felt I 'd been meant to be born and grow up … ) and developed a particular passion for the French Revolution , reading all the Scarlet Pimpernel books , the story of the first Madame Tussaud , forced to model the guillotined heads , and everything that I could find that would bring it all to life . |
| 39 | She 'd been required to be beautiful and talented and independent , but she had n't wanted to be any of those things . |
| 40 | He 'd been put to bed early , exhausted after a visit from Konstantin and his girlfriend . |
| 41 | Whereupon the partying Ninevites , just like Jonah inside the whale , repented ; whereupon God decided after all to spare the city ; whereupon Jonah became incredibly irritated , which was only normal in one who 'd been put to a lot of trouble to bring the message of destruction , only for the Lord , despite a well-known , indeed historic taste for wrecking cities , to turn round and change his mind . |
| 42 | A commodity never difficult to find , in John-William 's experience , particularly now when the Chartist leaders , who had been locked up after the troubles of 1839 , were all out of prison again ; except for that Sheffield lad , of course , who 'd died at twenty-seven , from the hard labour he 'd been put to at Northallerton jail . |
| 43 | Because , in the summer of 1969 , people who 'd been consigned to the medical scrap heap , victims of the 1920s sleeping sickness or encephalitic epidemic , really did take up their beds and walk . |
| 44 | The same Rory she 'd been talking to just before he and his wife Harriet died . |
| 45 | I told him I 'd been talking to Richie . |
| 46 | I mean , if you 'd been talking to him during the lesson he 'd say , well , if you want to talk about it , leave it till after the lesson . |
| 47 | They knew we 'd been talking to their pop idols and they just wanted to touch us . |
| 48 | A lot of them related to the data I 'd been passing but also he 'd want to know who I 'd been talking to . |
| 49 | The publican replied that he 'd been talking to his dog . |
| 50 | Leaving whoever it was he 'd been talking to , he started towards her . |
| 51 | For a long moment their glances clashed like swords , then there was a shout behind her , and she turned to see the two men he 'd been talking to and a short stout woman in a dark overall running towards them . |
| 52 | ‘ She was complaining at not being able to get through because my number was engaged and I said I 'd been talking to you . |
| 53 | I did a double-take before I realized he 'd been talking to me . |
| 54 | Of course , he 'd been talking to Maria Luisa ; he had nothing to say to Steve . |
| 55 | After I 'd been talking to him about leaving . |
| 56 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 57 | And she 'd been talking to him for about half an hour and well er her son had come up |
| 58 | I 'd been talking to someone about the effects of music , cos there 's a couple of court cases going on . |
| 59 | ‘ I had a feeling he 'd been committed to an asylum . |
| 60 | They 'd been known to us for years as a couple of minor police informers , dabblers in espionage who never come up with anything much . ’ |