Example sentences of "[vb past] he 'd be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |
| 3 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
| 4 | But tonight he said he believed he 'd been punished enough . |
| 5 | And he 'd he 'd been on the dole er I think two years , and he 's just started up a a building site . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In court he also stated he 'd been unaware the cannister , legal on the continent , was an offensive weapon in Britain . |
| 8 | The watchmaker confirmed he 'd been with him at two . |
| 9 | ‘ I suppose they showed he 'd been drinking ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Yet he claimed he 'd been adopted . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And he reckoned he 'd been there ? |
| 15 | It was just that , well , I heard he 'd been down at the police station this morning . |
| 16 | Anthony Gallagher wept in the dock as he heard he 'd been found not guilty of causing the deaths by reckless driving . |
| 17 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 18 | He passed the day skulking around cafes , and when Georges met him by chance later on he confessed he 'd been beaten up in his flat because he 'd agreed to do a favour for someone and it had gone wrong . |
| 19 | It meant he 'd been laid off again at the stocking factory . |
| 20 | On the night Sgt lilley died he 'd been drinking again . |
| 21 | Brownlow felt he 'd been rebuked and it irritated him . |
| 22 | Harry knew he 'd been hit in the aircraft , feeling now the wetness of blood inside his shirt and trousers , although the wounds did n't hurt , only causing numbness . |
| 23 | Lachlan was near heaving the shipmaster overboard , but he knew he 'd been wrong . |
| 24 | My dear , he was holding it exactly as if it had been a squashed blackbeetle , and I knew he 'd been criticizing me all evening . |
| 25 | Yet Jezrael knew he 'd been one of them for longer than she 'd been on Mars . |
| 26 | I had to make sure he knew he 'd been duped . ’ |
| 27 | She knew he 'd been studying her face while watching for her reaction . |
| 28 | Marcus appeared in next-door 's back garden which surprised me as last I knew he 'd been snoring under the duvet . |
| 29 | From the other end came a gasp and he knew he 'd been heard . |
| 30 | What would these people think , I wondered , if they knew he 'd been living like an Apache most of his life and right up until a little while ago ? |