Example sentences of "who 'd be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Have what done ? ’ asked the child who 'd been listening . |
| 2 | Luce glanced at Michele , who 'd been listening . |
| 3 | A few moments later , acquitted defendant Daniel Winter , who 'd been listening to the closing speeches , ran from the building . |
| 4 | Before Kevin Ryan came back from America and bought the Half House from the last improvident Hamilton , nephew of her mother 's first husband who 'd been killed at Tobruk . |
| 5 | Many were crossed out , and she guessed they were men who 'd been killed or posted . |
| 6 | They had no idea who 'd been killed . |
| 7 | ‘ When we heard about poor Alain Gebrec being dead , I had a sudden vision of Dora looking furiously angry … you know how she sometimes glares at Dieter … and I thought for a moment … supposing it had been Dieter who 'd been killed … it might have been Dora who had … oh , I know it 's dreadful of me to think these things , but she hates him so much . ’ |
| 8 | It is a work that could have been written by a man who 'd been writing operas for twenty years and it introduced me to Ben 's remarkable sense of theatre . |
| 9 | There was a knock on the door , and when I said " Come in " the middle-aged woman who 'd been treated so rudely by Lennis in the morning appeared hesitantly . |
| 10 | Those who 'd been treated with AZT fared no better than for those who had n't . |
| 11 | A factory worker has been describing how he tried in vain to save a colleague who 'd been overcome by toxic fumes . |
| 12 | He was the one who 'd been thumped , after all . |
| 13 | There was one occasion when the addled eggs came in handy for pelting a kid on a motorbike who 'd been riding up and down outside our house all evening and making a terrible noise . |
| 14 | She sat back , munching , face red but eyes twinkling , and with those eyes indicated the two women who 'd been looking at us ; then she raised one finger and pointed first at me , then at her . |
| 15 | The man , who said his name was Dave , told detectives about a friend who 'd been looking for Carol shortly before she died . |
| 16 | Er they had them all back like when the pits was nationalized , all these people who 'd been sacked you know got back on . |
| 17 | And erm my my Mrs Jonathan , my aunt Auntie Bessie , invariably in Porthmadog , went to call on the families of people who 'd been lost , as my mother did in in we lost you see in fifty two men killed in world war one . |
| 18 | Sorry to anyone who 'd been hoping for a match report from Newcastle , but I went home to Wakefield the morning after the game and so did n't get a chance to post one . |
| 19 | from down by the Nag 's Head , who 'd been bombed out . |
| 20 | Then this lad who 'd been padded up with John come round to see us . |
| 21 | But by now the police had found out about Lady Margaret Illingworth , a rich aunt who 'd been stripped of her fortune after she 'd gone senile . |
| 22 | She was always there , and she would tell , as she had told so often before , the remarkable story of her Jimmy , who 'd been posted as dead last December and who , six months later , had simply walked into the house , bold as you please , and asked for a cup of tea . |
| 23 | I talked to the boy who 'd been trying to help this Frome — trying to get him to vomit it up , and so on . |
| 24 | Their bodies were discovered when friends who 'd been trying to contact one of the women became worried and called the police . |
| 25 | He was run over by thieves who 'd been trying to steel aluminimum worth less than two hundred pounds . |
| 26 | Another , who 'd been injured in a brawl during exercise , sported fifty-eight stitches from the point of his chin to the corner of his left eye . |
| 27 | Last week the Government warned that around 300 women who 'd been injected with a hormone called gonadotrophin , extracted from the pituitary glands of human corpses , could be at risk . |
| 28 | On trial at Worcester Crown Court were thirty year old Jamie Ray , a Californian who 'd been staying in England , James Lovelidge from London who 's twenty seven and unemployed , and Michael Rock , a forty one year old French Canadian who was living in London . |
| 29 | Three years ago Anna McGurk was murdered by a man who 'd been bailed on a rape charge . |
| 30 | They started drinking that evening and the man who 'd been fired started talking about life in Vietnam and posing as a veteran , and he said to the other one , ‘ The only place to go after hours is Tan Son Hut airport because they have marvellous chinese soup there ’ and they wanted to sober up . |