Example sentences of "he 'd be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’ |
| 2 | In any case , 'e would n't be in 'ere terday if 'e 'd been lucky . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ 'E 'd been saying ‘ ow 's you 's coming hover . |
| 4 | In the heart of the vast city , Daddy again , his brown eyes bright , you could see his sparse hair growing down by the minute into the Hippie pigtail he 'd been too young or too old and always too respectable to wear … |
| 5 | He 'd been beaten up once and arrested once . ’ |
| 6 | Then he 'd jumped to his feet as if he 'd been bitten by a snake , shouting , ‘ You 're a virgin ! |
| 7 | How could the English boy go on living now that he 'd been found out ? |
| 8 | Saad had taken his own life the night the news had gone round that he 'd been caught sleeping with a travelling shepherd . |
| 9 | One Saturday night he 'd been drinking in front of the telly when he decided to phone Sheila 's place . |
| 10 | He 'd been up since six trying to fix his motorbike . |
| 11 | ‘ I think he 'd been fascinated by the wooden leg banging on the floor . |
| 12 | When I first saw the dog , it was quite obvious he 'd been deeply affected by the explosion and had developed a 100-watt phobia for light bulbs ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Patrick himself made a statement to my sister which I 've got on tape , saying he 'd been discarded by the woman he married . |
| 15 | That being an impossible expectation , I went off on a tack and remarked that he 'd been lucky , as a politician , that he was also a natural entertainer . |
| 16 | He thought he 'd been there once but had no idea now . |
| 17 | Harry knew he 'd been hit in the aircraft , feeling now the wetness of blood inside his shirt and trousers , although the wounds did n't hurt , only causing numbness . |
| 18 | He 'd been the man behind Mr Freedom , the shop that was the first place to sell T-shirts with slogans printed on them . |
| 19 | He 'd been buying his clothes at Acme Attractions up the road — a stall which generally did exactly the same as Malcolm only six months later , and were quite open about it . |
| 20 | He 'd been involved with bands all those years and could play a bit of music but he never quite got the hang of the idea of written music . |
| 21 | The AC contact was n't Shelby 's first ; he 'd been hawking his sports car plans around since the late '50s and among the people he 'd contacted with a view to building his hybrid had been his good friend Donald Healey . |
| 22 | The 18-year-old who caused the accident admitted that he 'd been driving recklessly . |
| 23 | He was found down by the river this morning and he 'd been dead since midnight or before . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ You do n't know who he is , but last night in the pub you asked Mr Hatton if he 'd been seeing much of McCloy lately . |
| 25 | He jumped out of his skin like he 'd been stung . |
| 26 | Ian Squires , severely autistic , returned to Islington in 1986 from a residential school where he 'd been happy . |
| 27 | If he 'd been in Eden , he would have probably left apple cores strewn all around the garden . |
| 28 | He 'd been making some records but they were n't successful and for the first few weeks after I 'd met him and decided to work with him , I was listening to songs that he 'd written , and was in the process of writing , and came to the conclusion that he was not essentially a singles artist . |
| 29 | Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days . |
| 30 | I think it was just the final end of a long line of demands that he 'd been making . |