Example sentences of "'d be [verb] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Isabel 's personal integrity had been there in her clear gaze all the time , if he 'd been thinking with his head instead of with his emotions . |
| 3 | We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms . |
| 4 | It was gone in a moment , but briefly she 'd been filled with a sudden , oddly urgent desire to know more about him . |
| 5 | Anyway , I 'd been staying with them in darkest Kensington , at Mr Gibbon 's very grand , three-storeyed town-house in Ascot Square , just off Addison Road , and working at a branch of Mondo-Food on Victoria Street ( they were trying a new line in Haggisburgers at the time and the manager thought my accent would help shift them . |
| 6 | ‘ It appears there 'd been a big row and a parting of the ways before my agent tracked them down , but my premise was right : they 'd been staying with one of Svend 's college friends at his parents ’ apartment on the outskirts of the city . |
| 7 | He 'd been fiddling with his desk , had n't he ? |
| 8 | The Emissary 's Illusochamber had also been free of bugging devices as I 'd found when I 'd been fiddling with my headband , activating a mini-ceptor in one of the jewels . |
| 9 | Like a fool I told her about the man I 'd been living with . |
| 10 | ( This was a circumstance paralleled at his own funeral , when the friends and relations of the woman he 'd been living with for part of the week since the early 1960s stole the show from us , the pathetic huddle of the family of his middle years . ) |
| 11 | She 'd been living with one of his men , a guy who knew a lot about his affairs , and Connie could n't help knowing plenty of things that Bonanza would not want advertised on the radio . ’ |
| 12 | Maybe she 'd always had someone to look after her ; he 'd been living with darned socks and the stitch-in-time philosophy all his life , first his mother and then Margaret , who sorted her stockings out into ones she could wear to the office and ones which were only good for gardening . |
| 13 | ‘ And do you deny that for the two years prior to his death you 'd been living with him in his flat in London ? ’ |
| 14 | She 'd been living with him in Bristol and they planned to marry . |
| 15 | By then large drops were falling all around me , another landing on my wig and one splashing on my shoulder , making me jump as if I 'd been prodded with a therm-knife . |
| 16 | Picking up the internal telephone , she buzzed Stephanie , abruptly coming to a decision she 'd been wrestling with for a couple of days , one she considered to be eminently sensible and practical … |
| 17 | He 'd been sparing with words : it hurt to talk . |
| 18 | Those who 'd been treated with AZT fared no better than for those who had n't . |
| 19 | She 'd been drinking with friends . |
| 20 | She was wearing biker leathers and cowboy boots which all looked as if they 'd been applied with the aid of a shoehorn . |
| 21 | She 'd been strangled with some kind of flex or cord . |
| 22 | Last week the Government warned that around 300 women who 'd been injected with a hormone called gonadotrophin , extracted from the pituitary glands of human corpses , could be at risk . |
| 23 | Jahsaxa flinched with annoyance when she realised she 'd been connected with the Roirbak answering machine again . |
| 24 | And if you read the scriptures , you 'll discover those where er he , you know er he was with Paul on one occasion , and er he 'd been eating with Gentiles and er then some Jews came up who believed that eating with er non-Jews even though they were followers of Jesus was wrong . |
| 25 | My eyes watered with pain , with chlorine from the swimming pool and with oil from the rag I 'd been blindfolded with . |
| 26 | Sobbing with pain and rage , he was carted off to hospital by an ashen Claudia and the family doctor , who 'd been presented with a horse every time he delivered a Mendoza baby . |
| 27 | But of course we were very strongly against it really but er , because th you know we 'd been inundated with all these marvellous ideas of this progress and it 's all for the best and everything , but it does n't seemed to have work does it really ? |
| 28 | He fell into the chair as though he 'd been hit with a medicine ball and said very little while Malc 's parents discussed what we should do . |
| 29 | A team-mate claimed : ‘ He looked like he 'd been hit with a meat cleaver . ’ |
| 30 | A woman in Naples recently insisted on having her husband 's grave dug up — after she realised he 'd been buried with £3,500 in his jacket pocket . |