Example sentences of "'d be [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | She 'd been so sure he 'd been born to money . |
| 3 | ‘ He 'd been sent to a friend of mine to be sold , but he was a little bit difficult to place . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She 'd been flattered to be asked , of course . |
| 7 | ‘ You were afraid of the light because you 'd been taught to be afraid of it , ’ said Rachaela . |
| 8 | ‘ They all reported to the police station they 'd been assigned to and they all went on to stand trial . ’ |
| 9 | Tommaso had not come back at Ascension , though some others who 'd been called to military service at the same time walked into town one afternoon . |
| 10 | Luckily the others still were n't back so he made me write a note saying we 'd been called to London on some family matter and we took the next train from Cheltenham station . ’ |
| 11 | His parents were found dead at their house by firemen who 'd been called to their cottage in Tetbury . |
| 12 | She 'd been listening to him with dawning realisation , an icy sensation freezing her body inch by inch . |
| 13 | Over his shoulder he saw the looming shape of Arthur Dooley , the main singer of the group they 'd been listening to . |
| 14 | It was the Russians they 'd been listening to the whole lot . |
| 15 | A few moments later , acquitted defendant Daniel Winter , who 'd been listening to the closing speeches , ran from the building . |
| 16 | and Peter came in the morning , I never thought anything I 'd been listening to the radio , I heard there was a big accident on the road , a car accident |
| 17 | She 'd been elected to the National Executive Committee and she stood up , said how pleased she was , and then said , ‘ But now I have to take the bucket round for a collection because that 's what I always do … ’ and I just thought , ‘ How wonderful ’ . |
| 18 | Their veteran spokesman thundered occasionally from the back benches , but he 'd been banished to the backwoods by popular opinion . |
| 19 | Shit all over the floor and the walls , " said a twenty-one-year-old machinist who 'd been banished to Coventry 's notorious Woodend estate . |
| 20 | But after that Pete had sworn that he 'd touch nothing stronger than tapwater for the rest of the evening , and so far he 'd been sticking to it . |
| 21 | She 'd been wanting to be my best friend for ages . |
| 22 | She was n't to know that he 'd been posted to Berlin . |
| 23 | He 'd been posted to the Far East in the 1930 's and as a police office , he was captured at the fall of Singapore and imprisoned in the Japanese death camps . |
| 24 | Cos that 's why I did n't get any when I got my last prescription because I 'd been trying to just sort of even take one |
| 25 | And he 'd known it , all the time he 'd been trying to bed her . |
| 26 | I 'd been invited to dinner too , but declined . |
| 27 | He 'd been stabbed to death . |
| 28 | There was the beer keg I 'd been tied to and the length of wire I 'd probably been tied with lay on the floor . |
| 29 | He 'd been battered to death . |
| 30 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |