Example sentences of "'d be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
| 2 | Perry was a thick-set , bull-necked man who looked as if he 'd been eased into his suit with a shoe-horn . |
| 3 | Strange , she thought crossly , that the Copenhageners were n't all wearing ankle bandages , but then they 'd been born to the decorative but tricky pavements and attuned their footwear accordingly . |
| 4 | She 'd been so sure he 'd been born to money . |
| 5 | All she could recollect was that she 'd been amazed to find that they 'd been born on practically the same day in August : she on the sixth , and he on the eighth . |
| 6 | If she 'd been born on time this party would n't have happened until Christmas . |
| 7 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 8 | If she had the sense she 'd been born with she 'd get up from the table right now , wish him a polite good evening , and scuttle back to the safety of the dressing-room , there to make a pledge never to risk being in his company again . |
| 9 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 10 | It was n't her real name and — like Horowitz — she 'd been born in Hungary . |
| 11 | Ted was a child of the sixties , but he sounded as if he 'd been born in the Blitz . |
| 12 | TOTALLY UNKNOWN US bluesman comes to Britain and gets schlepped into a studio to record with a bunch of locals who wish they 'd been born in America 's Deep South . |
| 13 | She saw him scowl darkly as he scanned the page , and wondered for a few moments if perhaps , although he could speak her tongue almost as if he 'd been born in her country , he did not read English so well . |
| 14 | Do you think if he 'd been sent into hospital earlier he would n't have been in such a |
| 15 | Digging might not be classed as essential training , but he 'd been sent on attachment to learn all about real soldiering . |
| 16 | He 'd been ordered to report to the Ministry by his Adjutant , and either there had been some colossal mistake or he 'd been sent for under false pretences . |
| 17 | ‘ I was expecting a relief nurse to arrive , and the doctor who 'd been sent for . |
| 18 | ‘ He 'd been sent to a friend of mine to be sold , but he was a little bit difficult to place . |
| 19 | She even managed to convince the man that she 'd been sent by Roman to inspect the goods . |
| 20 | But if she 'd been frank from the outset and had admitted to him that she 'd been sent by his stepmother with the plea for him to visit her the result would have been short and sharp . |
| 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 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 23 | Ven queried , as well he might , she realised , for she 'd been chatting to him like a veritable magpie all evening with not so much as a hint of shyness . |
| 24 | Cos Ange said she 'd , she 'd been chatting about Jenny to her . |
| 25 | He had n't said he was going away and renting his house , which was odd because they 'd been chatting in the village not two days before he 'd disappeared and Leo taken up residence . |
| 26 | For part of the trip in a flat bed truck they 'd been acompanied by armed guards , but no-one had told them why . |
| 27 | Now he was on his third circuit of the Bay : he 'd been ducking under bulldozers for almost an hour . |
| 28 | It was as if she 'd been calling on a dead line to an empty building . |
| 29 | ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family . |
| 30 | They 'd been separated in the fracas which followed their parachute descent into northern France , and she feared that Jeanne had been killed in the fighting . |