Example sentences of "be that [pers pn] 'd " in BNC.
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| 1 | So single-minded had she been that she 'd forgotten the presence of Mike and this man . |
| 2 | Could it be that he 'd resented Doreen 's attack on herself ? |
| 3 | Yeah well at the end of the day I mean I I was n't there but a the facts at the end of the day were that they 'd been buggering about with that radio system which they should n't do . |
| 4 | Being that I 'd had one before and I was alright about it , I feel fine . |
| 5 | If I left a table in Fif 's that I 'd just acquired , I might attract attention . |
| 6 | ‘ I was getting on for thirty years of age , with the retarded emotions of an adolescent , and the only excuse I have is that I 'd spent most of my youth pursuing excellence rather than women . ’ |
| 7 | Ted 's initial fear was that they 'd done something stupid and run away together , but then after a while he 'd begun to hope for this and nothing worse . |
| 8 | All she could think of was that they 'd all been in on this — a kind of family Mafia , working behind the scenes to make sure that Lucenzo ended up with everything , his empire untouched . |
| 9 | The other odd thing , she realised , was that they 'd never been on holiday to France . |
| 10 | you know was that they 'd got results which they could n't sort of like apply |
| 11 | The first thing I thought of was that we 'd offended them in some way we did n't know — done a terrible insult to their gods or something . |
| 12 | But in , in the impression was that we 'd a Land Rover then it 's funny . |
| 13 | He went on a while about the various tests but where he came out was that she 'd been dead for at least five days , and seven was perfectly possible . |
| 14 | She put my book down , said for about the fourth time how sorry she was that she 'd missed my reading , but she 'd simply felt too shaky . |
| 15 | What he was sure of was that she 'd disappeared , and that was inconvenient to him . |
| 16 | She was sitting on the bed with her album — that sparsely-peopled record of whatever it was that she 'd left behind and she was n't leafing through it but hugging it close , as if it was a physical source of comfort to her when times were at their lowest . |
| 17 | ‘ The last thing I heard was that she 'd gone to America and married some newspaper magnate twice her age . |
| 18 | For the truth was that she 'd been offered promotion a dozen times — in spite of the fact that when she 'd started as a trainee she 'd had no formal training , no experience , nothing to commend her but a fistful of ambition . |
| 19 | She feigned enthusiasm , but what she was really thinking was that she 'd been a fool to hope he 'd come here on a more personal mission . |
| 20 | And if Mrs Williams — and how very grateful Morse was that she 'd agreed to his earlier telephone request to be present ! — if Mrs Williams could possibly think of some diversion … some talk , some walk . |
| 21 | She could n't quite remember when it was that she 'd realized Georg took it for granted they 'd get married as soon as she was old enough . |
| 22 | What she felt , and what she resented , was that she 'd been tricked ! |
| 23 | All she could recollect was that she 'd been amazed to find that they 'd been born on practically the same day in August : she on the sixth , and he on the eighth . |
| 24 | Her first thought in the morning was that she 'd failed to pay her share of the meal last night . |
| 25 | The little jokes , the smiles , the anecdotes about his childhood , about his city , had been nothing but clever prelude to her seduction but the worst of it was that she 'd been so damnably easy to seduce . |
| 26 | Ken Ward gave orders to bale out saying how sorry he was that he 'd got his crew into this mess ! |
| 27 | His line was that he 'd lost contact with Malcolm because he could only stand to be with him for so long at a stretch . |
| 28 | Eva was only two then , and all I could think was that he 'd stolen my little girl . |
| 29 | The other thing that was said about him , particularly towards the end , after the U-turn on economic policy , was that he 'd been captured by his officials , and that he also , in the end , rather relished the company of the permanent secretaries more than he did his Cabinet colleagues . |
| 30 | As I said , part of Barny 's problem was that he 'd never had any contact with people at all , and by the time I got him it was too late . |