Example sentences of "'d be use " in BNC.

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1 We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers .
2 She 'd been using these for years , ever since a practical demonstration by an art-school technician fired her to experiment with felting techniques .
3 When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 .
4 He 'd been using it for the Open .
5 Without a word , he took the staff I 'd been using , drove it into the ground with his sledge hammer , secured it with guy ropes and tied a washing line for me from it to the Land Rover .
6 Up till then I 'd been using Rickenbackers , and a ‘ 65 Telecaster I 'd bought which had been my main instrument for writing the material .
7 I felt that her character had been revealed and , what was more , that she 'd been using me .
8 Well it was useless compared to the amount I 'd been using , y'know .
9 I 'd been using most of it anyway , like .
10 In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically .
11 So after they 'd been using this stuff with no windows open or anything , one of the workmen began to feel a little bit groggy so he said to his mate and open the back door Charlie , will you , I 'm feeling a bit groggy .
12 ‘ Up until then I 'd been using gas and air and they were just about to give me some pethidine when all this serious discussion began .
13 The aroma that exuded from the chemist shop in those days like er Depends what they 'd been using you see ?
14 Pulling a little face , she carefully folded the tea-towel she 'd been using and laid it on the work surface .
15 I pushed by a couple of drunks who had just appeared bearing the same bottle of Hirondelle they 'd been using to get into parties all year and made my way upstairs .
16 What happened what happened really in , in Russia and China is er that they had a sort of captive lower class who 'd been used to a very authoritarian kind of rule so they were able to impose communism from above .
17 Doing the rooms in the morning fell into an easy rhythm — make the bed , tidy up anything the guests had left around , dust the tops , wash up the teacups if they 'd been used , clean the washbasin , put out fresh tea bags and sachets of coffee , sugar and milk powder , then go round with the Hoover .
18 The ammunition was soft-nosed , not what he 'd been used to but the only kind that was allowed for hunting .
19 in the end she took the children home with her , erm it was so different from what they 'd been used to in those erm
20 He 'd been used to having chars and minions running round him .
21 But these I tried , but they 'd they 'd been used .
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