Example sentences of "'d be [vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Lady Laetitia had forgotten all she 'd been taught in the morning and everything had to be rehearsed again . |
| 8 | We 'd entered him in the Novice section , but he 'd been upgraded in the meantime . |
| 9 | I managed four , but they tasted like they 'd been pickled in piss . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ The Ministry would have been only too happy to hand you over stuffed and pickled if they 'd been asked in the proper way . |
| 14 | The Israeli Mossad would have confirmed that I 'd been killed in Damascus . |
| 15 | Then in March , his mother was told he 'd been killed in action |
| 16 | Another , who 'd been injured in a brawl during exercise , sported fifty-eight stitches from the point of his chin to the corner of his left eye . |
| 17 | What did he care about getting rid of the Corn Laws either — which was what the whole argument had been about — since they 'd been created in the first place for the benefit of his land-owning friends ? |
| 18 | They 'd been stored in a hangar which was totally destroyed . |
| 19 | He 'd been stabbed in the neck during a party to celebrate his engagement . |
| 20 | He 'd been stabbed in the throat . |
| 21 | But , at that time , none of us had seen Hell in person We 'd seen a picture of The Heartbreakers that Malcolm had brought back from New York — the one in which it was meant to look like they 'd been shot in the heart but in fact looked like they d all had the same accident with a ketchup bottle . |
| 22 | Word spread : Osvaldo had died of malaria ; he 'd been shot in the back by X. Ray ; he 'd fallen down a cliff . |
| 23 | A nurse who saved a security guards life after he 'd been shot in the chest by an armed robber has received a top award . |
| 24 | The undeveloped film was found in her handbag after she 'd been shot in an ambush by Islamic fundamentalists , while on holiday in Egypt a month ago . |
| 25 | A court 's been hearing how an off-duty nurse saved a security guard 's life after he 'd been shot in the chest during an armed robbery . |
| 26 | He 'd been shot in the head , left partially deaf and paralysed . |
| 27 | She 'd been reserved in a way which suggested that she might be strong-willed but was making an effort to hide it or keep it in check . |
| 28 | Her words sliced through Shannon like burning arrows , but only a faint staining of her cheeks showed she 'd been affected in the slightest . |
| 29 | She was trapped , as helpless as if she 'd been bound in chains . |
| 30 | They 'd been entwined in an embrace , and Sandy 's hair had been spread like a fan ; by Aldridge 's account it had been a touching , harrowing sight . |