Example sentences of "man who 'd be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ted jerked up like a man who 'd been zapped with a thousand volts . |
| 2 | Few fights — occasionally , you 'd get a man who 'd been gashed in the face with a bottle , that had been drunk in the bar and you 'd be called in and you 'd take him to hospital . |
| 3 | ‘ Where there 's money to be made you can bet there 's someone making it , ’ said an old man who 'd been silently working his spindle since the conversation began . |
| 4 | He did it automatically when the girl attacked the man who 'd been fighting with her father , recognizing it as a natural reaction to shock and grief . |
| 5 | A man who 'd been scalded in the kitchens by cooking oil . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He wanted to blurt out that she looked beautiful in blue , that he 'd like to kill the man who 'd been in her flat the previous evening , that he hoped her date with him had been a miserable failure , that he had hardly slept a wink all night , beside himself with jealousy . |
| 8 | The young , nervous and over-eager man who 'd been the first of her assignments for Charlie . |
| 9 | Some sort of ex-military man who 'd been having some rather rough games with some of the boys . |
| 10 | What had she really known about the young man who 'd been Eddie 's friend ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He had the look of a man who 'd been pacing about restlessly , his tie loose about his throat , his shirt collar undone . |
| 13 | Three years ago Anna McGurk was murdered by a man who 'd been bailed on a rape charge . |
| 14 | Dot knew from their voices that those two young men who 'd been working in the fields must be prisoners . |
| 15 | Many were crossed out , and she guessed they were men who 'd been killed or posted . |
| 16 | You know both sides were very happy you know it was up with the company or down with the company you know , and I think certainly the younger lads sort of saw it as an infringement upon their future , you know we 've all got mortgages and the o older men who 'd been working since the quarry started you know were gon na see a drop in their standard of living , so I think you know people were getting a bit upset you know that a n a new fella h a new face had come in , and all of a sudden you know changes were being made that were gon na hurt everybody financially . |
| 17 | The fighting started among a group of men who 'd been playing pool . |