Example sentences of "'d be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perry was a thick-set , bull-necked man who looked as if he 'd been eased into his suit with a shoe-horn . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She 'd been so sure he 'd been born to money . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If she 'd been born on time this party would n't have happened until Christmas . |
| 6 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 9 | It was n't her real name and — like Horowitz — she 'd been born in Hungary . |
| 10 | Ted was a child of the sixties , but he sounded as if he 'd been born in the Blitz . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Do you think if he 'd been sent into hospital earlier he would n't have been in such a |
| 14 | Digging might not be classed as essential training , but he 'd been sent on attachment to learn all about real soldiering . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ I was expecting a relief nurse to arrive , and the doctor who 'd been sent for . |
| 17 | ‘ He 'd been sent to a friend of mine to be sold , but he was a little bit difficult to place . |
| 18 | She even managed to convince the man that she 'd been sent by Roman to inspect the goods . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | For part of the trip in a flat bed truck they 'd been acompanied by armed guards , but no-one had told them why . |
| 22 | ‘ When they 'd been separated for ten years , ’ said Mr Brownlow , ‘ your father met another family . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | She 'd been flattered to be asked , of course . |
| 27 | He 'd lost weight , his eyes were staring and red as if they 'd been rolled in grit , and his clothes hung on him like a scarecrow 's ; it was almost as if , in the course of the past few weeks , he 'd been drained of the zest and the energy and the sense of confidence that she 'd steadily been picking up . |
| 28 | As soon as Moby was too old for puppy classes , he went to the bigger-dog classes , run by Jenny , to reinforce what he 'd been taught at puppy classes and , most importantly , what he 'd learned at home . |
| 29 | ‘ You were afraid of the light because you 'd been taught to be afraid of it , ’ said Rachaela . |
| 30 | Lady Laetitia had forgotten all she 'd been taught in the morning and everything had to be rehearsed again . |