Example sentences of "when he 'd be " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he 'd been appointed a Minister he 'd handed over his parcel of shares to his wife , Leonora . |
| 2 | The House of Detention held dangerous men behind bars , some of them Irish , and she remembered how her father had been threatened with it when he 'd been caught causing trouble . |
| 3 | Charlie rarely saw his own father when he 'd been a patient and sad character living with his mother . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The first was some eight years ago when he 'd been accused of shoddy workmanship on a car which had been involved in a crash two days after he 'd MOTed it . |
| 6 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 7 | She had loved him while hating him , had loved him when he 'd been a perfect swine . |
| 8 | She had seen him like this before , the night they 'd met , when he 'd been determined to have his own way ; she 'd seen him like this again , when he 'd announced she was not going to return to Milan … |
| 9 | just like that crazy after what , forty odd years of smoking he stopped it just like that , and then when the doctor said when he 'd been , after he 'd got the results back , you know , all the , all the ones they do at the hospital then |
| 10 | And the marvellous thing in Plato of Socrates , when he 'd been told by the Delphic Oracle that he was the wisest of men , he started off like a sort of good poperian scientist trying to falsify this and he went round finding people wiser than himself and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought ‘ Oh , the poets , they 're marvellous people , they know so much ’ , and he went to them and he found that the had n't a clue what they 'd written . |
| 11 | And the marvellous thing in Plato , of Socrates , erm when he 'd been told by the Delphic oracle that he was the wisest of men , he , he started off like a sort of good Popperian scientist trying to falsify this , erm and he went round finding people wiser than himself , and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought , ‘ Oh , the poets ! |
| 12 | When he 'd been home for a month . |