Example sentences of "[adv] he 'd be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently he 'd been offered a record contract which the Fish had turned down , saying they were n't good enough yet . |
| 2 | Apparently he 'd been telling all the other English teachers about it and now they all wanted their classes to see and hear about Hadwick 's owl . |
| 3 | And he had to go and train somewhere down south , but he 's got a he , apparently he 'd been trying for a year and he 's got to Accrington . |
| 4 | Well I mean I , apparently he 'd been giving this , this guy stick like all day . |
| 5 | I had no idea how long he 'd been standing there . |
| 6 | How long he 'd been sleeping rough no one could tell . |
| 7 | " Can you estimate how long he 'd been in the water ? " |
| 8 | All night long he 'd been saying it . |
| 9 | Isabel wondered how long he 'd been sitting there — intent , watchful , waiting . |
| 10 | If only he 'd been able to finish off the plastic swan and the weeping-kid picture there 'd have been some hope for the flat . |
| 11 | He fantasized about all the ones he could have had if only he 'd been sure that a gnarled form in holey sweaters would n't join them at 1 a.m . |
| 12 | But perhaps he 'd been over-excited . |
| 13 | Perhaps he 'd been referring to someone else as well ? |
| 14 | I thought perhaps he 'd been to you and sort of were you interested and he he 'd come back . |
| 15 | Obviously he 'd been doing some kind of a finance deal ; setting up a takeover ; and he 'd lifted some off the top for himself . ’ |
| 16 | It turned out the Australian 's baggage with much expensive equipment had never arrived in Quito , not even made it to the continent ( or so he 'd been told ) , and I sensed he had no sympathy left for any other 's misfortune . |
| 17 | So he 'd been looking for her . |
| 18 | So he 'd been invited , had he ? |
| 19 | So he 'd been to the doctors about few weeks ago and he 'd been repairing his shed , said there was water coming in and he went to he said oh you 've pulled a ligament or something he said , it 'll take weeks for it to clear up but anyhow he went back again about a fortnight ago . |
| 20 | He broke the engagement , stunned by how easily he 'd been duped by her . |
| 21 | But from the moment she 'd come downstairs he 'd been a different man . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In their dealings in the office they 'd worked well together , achieved an excellent rapport regarding the PR for the business fair , but somehow he 'd been the model of teasing aloofness , apparently with more time for Stephanie Marsa than for Caroline . |
| 24 | But lately he 'd been concealing this whiff with his favourite aftershave , Rampage . |
| 25 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |
| 26 | I saw at once he 'd been drinking . |
| 27 | But tonight before , well on Saturday before we came up like he 'd been back and to this after , well this morning really and I , he 'd disappeared had n't he ? |
| 28 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
| 29 | ‘ He was glad that Sigarup had come , because up to now he 'd been the only patient staying and , alone at night , he was terrified of ghosts — of the restless souls of all the people who must have died there , far from their homes and families . ’ |
| 30 | Two days earlier he had been driving troop carriers at Kuchino , one of the KGB 's training centres outside Moscow , and now he 'd been asked to drive for General Benin no less . |