Example sentences of "'d be [vb pp] 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 | We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms . |
| 3 | It was gone in a moment , but briefly she 'd been filled with a sudden , oddly urgent desire to know more about him . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Those who 'd been treated with AZT fared no better than for those who had n't . |
| 6 | She was wearing biker leathers and cowboy boots which all looked as if they 'd been applied with the aid of a shoehorn . |
| 7 | She 'd been strangled with some kind of flex or cord . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Jahsaxa flinched with annoyance when she realised she 'd been connected with the Roirbak answering machine again . |
| 10 | My eyes watered with pain , with chlorine from the swimming pool and with oil from the rag I 'd been blindfolded with . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | A team-mate claimed : ‘ He looked like he 'd been hit with a meat cleaver . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Ted jerked up like a man who 'd been zapped with a thousand volts . |
| 17 | His jeans looked as if they 'd been slashed with a knife . |
| 18 | And that made it all the more thrilling , especially when she recalled some of the women he 'd been photographed with . |
| 19 | She was going to be left in the care of a woman she did n't know , just as she 'd been left with them before . |
| 20 | And she 'd been charmed with Bergerac itself . |
| 21 | They 'd been issued with Sterling by Lloyds Bank . |
| 22 | Isobel was ambitious , and had her sights set on the national news media ; unfortunately , so did every other young news-hustler in every backwater station in the country , and few of them were having to contend with sinuses that felt as if they 'd been stuffed with pillows . |
| 23 | They 'd been muffled with rags and pieces of tyre , but it was still a lash-up . |
| 24 | He 'd was stationed with the Royal Army Medical Corps in Bosnia protecting the UN headquarters in Sarajevo . |