Example sentences of "'d be [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They too are all people who 'd been made redundant . |
| 2 | I also remember proudly coming home to tell Dad I 'd been made head prefect of my grammar school . |
| 3 | I used to have quite a complex about being beaten , but I met Liz after I 'd been beaten hollow all year and she still married me . ’ |
| 4 | He he was very excitable , excitable and he was angry erm he was shouting at me er that he 'd been spreadeagled naked er on the floor , guns had been pointed at him and his front door had been smashed down and his er his family , his wife and children had been frightened . |
| 5 | Like the other women , I 'd recently left my own home because I could n't carry on there any longer and I 'd been given safe spaces by friends with room to spare . |
| 6 | Like he 'd been cut open and died and I put my hand in all among his intestines . ’ |
| 7 | It was an immediate transformation of my personal and social outlook and it started in me a new sort of excitement — it was as though you 'd been shot full of adrenalin . |
| 8 | He could remember the first time that he 'd stepped outside into country darkness and closed the door behind him ; it was as if he 'd been struck blind with the click of the latch , and he 'd begun to panic at his inability even to tell which way was up . |
| 9 | if you 'd been buried alive you think |
| 10 | It was as though she 'd been let loose from shackles she had n't even known she 'd been wearing . |
| 11 | Tonight , one of Hadley 's victims described her anger towards him , and her relief he 'd been found guilty . |
| 12 | He 'd been told various stories that had supplied small but interesting details about Mandru 's personality and private life . |
| 13 | Shortly after his death , I was working a ‘ noon and night ’ at a local Working Men 's Club when the top of the bill — a Welsh comic called Dave Swan — was unable to do the evening performance , as he 'd been taken ill . |
| 14 | The students say they dropped legal action after they 'd been promised full consultation , as the Visitor of Somerville College , Lord Roy Jenkins had insisted last year . |
| 15 | The students say they dropped legal action after they 'd been promised full consultation , as the Visitor of Somerville College , Lord Roy Jenkins had insisted last year . |
| 16 | ‘ If I 'd been educated proper , I expect I 'd be able to talk more , ’ said Dolly , ‘ specially if I 'ad good looks and not just a sort of orphanage face . |