Example sentences of "[noun pl] he 'd be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd never seen anyone in Jubilee Wood in all the months he 'd been coming up here . |
| 2 | For almost two months he 'd been worried for his son . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | Perhaps she 'd heard his panting , and the promises he 'd been making in the dark . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | Quick-thinking James , 20 , switched off the gas and collected a damp cloth , while Darren used the fire-fighting techniques he 'd been learning on his weekend course in Surrey to tackle the blaze . |
| 11 | Amiss decided not to mention the dead bodies he 'd been coming across since he 'd got chummy with Jim Milton . |
| 12 | He unzipped his bag and took out what few possessions he 'd been allowed to bring in to the cell : a small cassette-radio and a few tapes . |
| 13 | He flipped back through the book looking at his entries , neat , and pages of notes about the pheasants and the weather and the times he 'd been up there . |
| 14 | Marron told police he 'd been copying what he 'd seen on a pornographic video : Judge Paul Clark said it showed how harmful such videos were . |
| 15 | He also told police he 'd been copying a homosexual video tape . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | After all the incivilities he 'd been hurling at her , he deserved to be put in his place a little ! |
| 18 | And that made it all the more thrilling , especially when she recalled some of the women he 'd been photographed with . |
| 19 | And anyway I walked past him and he went back and he was sh moaning at her so erm two of the old boys he 'd been working with said whatever 's all that about ? |
| 20 | For a few brief moments he 'd been able to forget the room and the bizarre encampment and Hennessy at his elbow , and he 'd conversed in a language that came to him now almost as readily as his first ; he 'd conversed with a dark-eyed alien . |
| 21 | The trousers he was holding were the ones he 'd been wearing at Streatley the previous weekend . |
| 22 | It was gone in an instant as at last he looked up at her and pushed aside the papers he 'd been leafing through . |
| 23 | Leith was sitting stunned , with her glasses still in her hand , when a minute later Jimmy rushed in with the papers he 'd been to collect . |
| 24 | He looked up from the papers he 'd been working on and said blandly , ‘ Ah , Luce … |
| 25 | Then : ‘ Georges said Edouard told his colleagues he 'd been attacked in the street the night before by some youths he did n't know . |