Example sentences of "[verb] he 'd be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strong hints about his IRA sympathies , as if everyone did n't know he 'd been a self-proclaimed Sinn Feinner since he was a youngster . |
| 2 | Did you know he 'd been convicted of drunken driving ? |
| 3 | Although Colin , Colin rang last night , I did n't even know he 'd been ! |
| 4 | So he made a couple of phone calls to Osnabrück-he found he 'd been given a room with an Engineer regiment-then sipped a lager until train time . |
| 5 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |
| 6 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
| 7 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 8 | The police say he 'd been arrested last month and questioned about threats to Mrs Smith , but he 'd been released on police bail pending further enquiries . |
| 9 | But tonight he said he believed he 'd been punished enough . |
| 10 | And he 'd he 'd been on the dole er I think two years , and he 's just started up a a building site . |
| 11 | They 'd said he 'd been caught in a heliborne ambush and killed in hand to hand combat by a malai captain . |
| 12 | Charity looked serious but she was obviously a master at the game and he must not show he 'd been jolted . |
| 13 | If she had n't known better she 'd have thought he 'd been drinking . |
| 14 | It 's thought he 'd been incontinent and tried to wash himself . |
| 15 | It 's thought he 'd been swept off a mountain in high winds . |
| 16 | William who was a widower told his son he could believe he 'd been taken in by the conmen . |
| 17 | One did not have to attend school meals with the boys over the week-end if one was off duty ; and the only master who might have noticed I had been away was Méli himself , but as it happened he 'd been in Athens . |
| 18 | In court he also stated he 'd been unaware the cannister , legal on the continent , was an offensive weapon in Britain . |
| 19 | The watchmaker confirmed he 'd been with him at two . |
| 20 | Next thing we read he 'd been knocked down and killed |
| 21 | ‘ I suppose they showed he 'd been drinking ? ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Perhaps I should sell the place and be done with it , ’ he said with an abruptness that showed he 'd been considering the idea for some time . |
| 23 | Whatever evidence the IAAF officials discovered in the laboratory , one only needed to look at recent pictures of Johnson , in which he resembled an inflated balloon , to guess that his improved times showed he 'd been sucked back into the drug culture . |
| 24 | Yet he claimed he 'd been adopted . |
| 25 | I was told he 'd been spotted playing the fruit machines at lunch-time . |
| 26 | Then in March , his mother was told he 'd been killed in action |
| 27 | If he did n't understand something , he was reluctant to stand up and ask , instead he 'd worry it out himself , sometimes I reckoned he 'd been at it all night . |
| 28 | And he reckoned he 'd been there ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . ’ |