Example sentences of "'d be [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't her real name and — like Horowitz — she 'd been born in Hungary . |
| 2 | Ted was a child of the sixties , but he sounded as if he 'd been born in the Blitz . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | But they had n't been made at Fords , they 'd been made in a subsidiary , taken up the road on long trailers , taken off the trailer onto the assembly conveyor , which er crawls round the assembly line and fitted like that . |
| 8 | Lady Laetitia had forgotten all she 'd been taught in the morning and everything had to be rehearsed again . |
| 9 | We 'd entered him in the Novice section , but he 'd been upgraded in the meantime . |
| 10 | I managed four , but they tasted like they 'd been pickled in piss . ’ |
| 11 | He 'd been hiding in a woodland graveyard , only half-heartedly concealed behind one of the leaning roofed crosses . |
| 12 | Even when she 'd been helping in the kitchen she 'd found her eyes straying , as if magnetised , in his direction . |
| 13 | I did put the landing light on , though , as I 'd been ambushed in the dark on those stairs before , barely escaping with my life . |
| 14 | On trial at Worcester Crown Court were thirty year old Jamie Ray , a Californian who 'd been staying in England , James Lovelidge from London who 's twenty seven and unemployed , and Michael Rock , a forty one year old French Canadian who was living in London . |
| 15 | must be when I looked at it they 'd been grown in the field , because it 's burnt , you can see it 's got this reddish muck where all the mud down |
| 16 | After all , he 'd been ferreting in the records for a good while . ’ |
| 17 | The fact that Margaret had been illegitimate , a war baby conceived between an Italian prisoner of war and an English landgirl , had no bearing on her name , although probably quite a lot to do with Margaret 's lack of maternalism , since she 'd been reared in a children 's home . |
| 18 | I 'd been teaching in Preston it must have been three years then , and when I read that book I suddenly realized I knew nothing about Lancashire at all — not the real Lancashire . |
| 19 | He 'd been funny , telling stories against himself of fiascos he had survived in the theatre , and he 'd been flattering in a subtle way . |
| 20 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |
| 21 | ‘ The Ministry would have been only too happy to hand you over stuffed and pickled if they 'd been asked in the proper way . |
| 22 | Since I 'd been living in the flat , Shadwell had been coming to see Eva at least once a week , during the day , when Dad was at the office . |
| 23 | We 'd been living in his London flat , and so far our frantic house-hunt had been futile — too big , too small , too near the road , too far from London , but mostly too expensive . |
| 24 | He 'd been living in a £500-a-week hotel suite in Nottingham , spending £2,000 a month on clothes . |
| 25 | She 'd been living in England such a long time , of course , it was a bit too free and easy over there . |
| 26 | I 'd been living in the country with my wife when she died unexpectedly . |
| 27 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 28 | She heard him release the breath he 'd been holding in a sigh . |
| 29 | He 'd been dozing in his sitting room when the noise from upstairs woke him . |
| 30 | The Israeli Mossad would have confirmed that I 'd been killed in Damascus . |