Example sentences of "who 'd be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just imagine having a mummy who 'd been a Brownie Guider but who would n't let you be a Brownie ! |
| 2 | While their father accepted that they were both of an age where they wanted to fly the nest , their mother , who , it had to be said , doted on her son — who 'd been a constant source of worry to her — took a little longer . |
| 3 | Dishing out the programmes and shepherding VIPs was Janet McPherson who 'd been a champion racing driver , starting with Formula IV and graduating to Formula 1 and , on the way , beating all the men at Silverstone . |
| 4 | What he did n't say , until he published his autobiography last year , was that he was also a high school drop-out who 'd been a heroin addict , a splendid example of rising out of the rot of the inner city . |
| 5 | ‘ Eleanor , my parents , quite a few of my friends — you never really made any effort to get along with the people who 'd been an important part of my life before you came on the scene . ’ |
| 6 | What 's more , the girl in question was the Spanish girl who 'd been the cause of his being sacked by the Shakespeare School . |
| 7 | He wanted to make sure he knew who 'd been the problem and would n't let me off the hook . |
| 8 | My sister was the person who 'd been the trouble , she had boyfriends in infant school , I was the girl who always beat up the boys in infant school ! |
| 9 | Ariel soon began to pick up some English , especially from Jack Elsey , a nineteen-year-old from Southwark , who 'd been the cook on the outward journey , and was prompt to learn from her the flavours of the island vegetables and herbs , the edible flowers and fruits he 'd never imagined could possibly exist when he was growing up one of the twelve offspring of a Thames waterman . |
| 10 | The young , nervous and over-eager man who 'd been the first of her assignments for Charlie . |