Example sentences of "he 'd be [prep] " in BNC.

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1 He 'd been off having fun too much .
2 He 'd been off drugs for six months when he died in that fire . ’
3 He could n't believe what he 'd done , that he 'd been into Mrs Wright 's house , into her bedroom even , when she was out .
4 The year before he 'd been into the whole Absolute Beginners scene and everything around him had to date from the late ‘ fifties , early ‘ sixties .
5 He 'd been along all these paths before .
6 Unfortunately he 'd been beyond reason , and after hearing in detail from Paul what a fiasco the whole performance had been she was n't surprised .
7 He 'd been over the limit , they 'd said , when he 'd crashed his BMW , and there could have been no sympathy whatsoever for him from the relatives of the woman killed in the other car .
8 And there was a a a a lad who was about a couple of years older than me , he 'd be about twenty three , he 'd been through the War and er he was a real revolutionary , he was re and and he was very intelligent .
9 and erm I was feeling ill at the time and I , I wondered why because he 'd been through so much suffering , you know , it was a happy release .
10 he said he 'd been through recently , oh every time I 've been through Wolverhampton that ring road 's been awful the traffic like
11 It was an ignoble , unworthy thought , he knew , but he was — now , anyway — only human , and therefore prey to human weaknesses , whatever sort of superhuman he 'd been during the War .
12 Getting him out of bed in the mornings in time for school became a real problem for his family when he 'd been up most of the night with pencil and note book .
13 He 'd been on the binge of all time , wrecking cars , hitting her , almost breaking two of her fingers .
14 He was beginning to get a bit homesick since they 'd stopped travelling and he 'd been on his own .
15 So I suppose if he 'd been on the Road every day he 'd have won the Open !
16 He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep .
17 If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train …
18 And he 'd been on our committee for I think it was about about three years was that right ?
19 The notion of such international co-operation would have been unthinkable even at senior investigator level ; but here the arrangements had been made and he 'd been on a plane within a matter of hours .
20 ( Two summers ago , on holiday in Greece with a school pal he had since lost touch with , he 'd been on a small , crowded , ramshackle train heading out of Athens over a scrubby plain in blistering heat .
21 He 'd been on a management course from which he had returned to speak of God as ‘ the perfect chairman of our meetings . ’
22 And he 'd he 'd been on the dole er I think two years , and he 's just started up a a building site .
23 He 'd been on the roads for days and they still retained their winter mire , despite the advent of finer spring weather .
24 However the assignment took a little bit longer than it er than if he 'd been on the other product range .
25 The Marquess of Blandford is back in prison tonight , charged with assualting two police officers who were trying to arrest him after he 'd been on the run for four days .
26 We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it .
27 One of the managers that come in and he 'd been on holiday for two weeks , but he knew !
28 No , it would n't have surprised me if he 'd been at his easel while I was painting the town red !
29 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 .
30 ‘ Well , I just thought he 'd been at the whisky even more than usual , and ignored him .
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