Example sentences of "[noun] he 'd be " in BNC.
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| 1 | worse thinking he 'd been to solicitors but I 'm trying to track down anybody ! |
| 2 | He bent to pick up the card he 'd been carrying then scowled at the deserted foyer . |
| 3 | Martinho , too , sensing what the rules of disengagement from the deathbed were going to be , allowed them to have their fun , or the priestly hypocrite he 'd been in the jungle — got his kicks out of the spectacle , what he might regard as my just deserts for my equivocal behaviour toward him in those nightmare days . |
| 4 | The only other thing that you heard Sergeant say that some how at the briefing he 'd been given information that was likely to be in the master bedroom . |
| 5 | There was no logical reason why they should add to the vague tension he 'd been conscious of all day . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The Deputy Director of the SIS was a man you could pass in the street without noticing , an effect he 'd been careful to cultivate . |
| 8 | He 'd never seen anyone in Jubilee Wood in all the months he 'd been coming up here . |
| 9 | For almost two months he 'd been worried for his son . |
| 10 | eventually they went bankrupt , Florrie is an of mine , she used to work there part time and she always enjoyed it , she 's been there say twenty years , she just came back from holiday and found the place is closed down and none of for the past er fifteen months he 'd been there , that past fifteen months none of their part time staff had their stamps put on their cards , so for their , for their pension |
| 11 | The cab stopped at the street intersection he 'd been given , his passenger paid him , took time drawing on his gloves until the cab was gone . |
| 12 | No wonder he 'd been so eager to sign her on as Anna 's companion . |
| 13 | What a fool he 'd been ! |
| 14 | But his attitude he 'd been taught to get on and do things so that he would be painting the back of the house or going on with his hobby or doing jobs on the car . |
| 15 | She said he was from Moila , and ever since he was a boy he 'd been a sort of con artist , and could get away with anything- ’ |
| 16 | His brow cleared after the terrific mental exercise he 'd been putting in . |
| 17 | Told Tyler Beck he 'd been hit by a truck . |
| 18 | The frightened nervous wretch he 'd been . |
| 19 | Perhaps she 'd heard his panting , and the promises he 'd been making in the dark . |
| 20 | For days he 'd been in the blackest of moods , furious with her for wasting herself on a man old enough to be her father , and even more furious with himself for not having taken her forcefully after that Christmas evening when he 'd known her feelings were as inflamed as his own . |
| 21 | Also , the mic was n't giving off the warm , mucky sound he 'd been going for . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | When the cab came , Charles left in a surge of family effusiveness , and then , feeling like the hero of some of the terrible thriller films he 'd been in during the fifties , he told the driver to go to Steen 's home instead . |
| 24 | She dragged up that other business he 'd been foolish enough to confide in her , that lost girl with the golden voice . |
| 25 | He really must try to explain to Carol about the mixed consciousness-raising group he 'd been in . |
| 26 | One of his men had been foolish enough to point out that the Company Captain was unlikely to want to use the cooker and that there had n't been anybody in that cell in all the eight years he 'd been there . |
| 27 | The second thing was I asked , and nobody picked it up , five , five years he 'd been working could the net earnings related carry forward ? |
| 28 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |
| 29 | He hated the room he 'd been given as his own , with the picture of Tony Greig that someone had taken from his room in Primrose Cottage and pinned up on the wall , and the pictures of Greg Chappell , who 'd once played for Somerset , and Brian Close . |
| 30 | A third guard in the van , Anthony Edwards , told the court he 'd been petrified he might be shot . |