Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] he 'd be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The jagged hole through which he 'd been propelled some minutes before now rushed past his face once every minute or so . |
| 2 | She knew he was referring to her last meeting with Jake and that explosive love scene in the drawing-room , only the sketchiest version of which he 'd been privy to . |
| 3 | Now he 'd lost track of what he 'd been thinking of completely . |
| 4 | He shot her a grin and she thought of what he 'd been to her in the last week and a half . |
| 5 | " To destroy the evidence of what he 'd been doing , or the result of his analysis , or the time he 'd spent on it . |
| 6 | And I understood at once the implications of what he 'd been saying . |
| 7 | She believed in most of what he 'd been saying ; she had no idea of how much he believed himself |
| 8 | He wanted to expand , so he went into partnership with someone he 'd been doing business with . |
| 9 | He spread the trousers carefully on the large deal table , put the towel with which he 'd been drying the luncheon dishes carefully on top of the faded tweed , smoothed it into place and began to poke out the creases with an old iron . |
| 10 | Something to do with what he 'd been through in some war . |
| 11 | He 'd gone and been impressed with what he 'd been told by the visiting medium , though he was n't convinced . |
| 12 | He 'd had a bad dream in which he 'd been not only head of the Conservative Research Department , but also with the Raj in Belfast , and confronted by coalminers and oil-rig workers to boot . |
| 13 | There were also photographs of his weak and charming father , who had read Pravda and the Daily Telegraph every morning , and his beautiful feckless mother , who 'd run off with an Italian and now lived in some palazzo in Rome , and of the huge house in which he 'd been brought up . |
| 14 | The lad next to me he 'd been three times ! |
| 15 | He had , in fact , treated her as a man might well treat a wife to whom he 'd been married for some years — a relaxed , comfortable relationship in which there was no need for any outward signs of affection . |
| 16 | His life had been spent tending the land to which he 'd been born and what more could any man want ? |
| 17 | He 'd daubed a rock with paint and used the tell-tale splashes to correct a slight right-hand drift , and then he 'd taken a rasp to the elaborate Monte Carlo grip , reshaping the stock to approximate to the military form on which he 'd been trained and binding it with tape when it was as he wanted . |
| 18 | What happened , though , was he ordered one of the captains on a dangerous mission-just how dangerous I knew — on which he 'd been wounded and the young wives had n't forgiven her for it . |
| 19 | As to what he 'd been doing , there had been a couple of incidents down by the river , which on top of the morning 's ordeal , had about finished him . |
| 20 | But he went on refusing to say anything at all about what he 'd been doing in Paris . |
| 21 | I went to have a look at what he 'd been doing . |