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

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1 I was surprised because she 'd been throwing herself at him all day and not getting anywhere much . ’
2 She selected the first three pages — Lucy as she 'd been allowed to see her , and handed them over .
3 Any conference she 'd been to , everyone wound up in her room long after midnight , playing poker and spouting Bacardi bullshit , wine-bottle wisdom .
4 But whenever she 'd been free to emigrate , she 'd fallen in love and put it out of the question .
5 In fact , the day before the I Love Lucy St Patrick 's Day , she 'd been told of a good job with the British Council in the Gilbert Islands .
6 as if she 'd been wearing a coat of many many colours , and , beached on the desert island shore of Pity Me , had shredded the damn shrunken thing .
7 She apologised of course ; I gathered she 'd been talking quilts with a fellow enthusiast and had forgotten the time .
8 It was her nail scissors that she 'd been searching for days , lost under the hearthrug and pressing into her hip ; and the cry was also her virginity , small and bewildered and gone .
9 And though she would never admit to it , I was sure there were moments , however fleeting and however infrequent , when she wished she 'd been with the Church of England , rather than the Roman Church .
10 One day in the shop she 'd been waiting for Malcolm 's girlfriend and partner , Vivienne Westwood — they 'd been planning to go somewhere but Vivienne had n't turned up , she 'd phoned to tell this American girl that .
11 She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by .
12 There , she had been happy in Pakistan ; she had been happy in the Peckham house at least for the first year ; she had been happy working for Graham ; she 'd been enthusiastically interested at college and during the first two years after she had qualified ; she had been completely delighted when she had got the job she now had : a tenants ' association garden in a dreadful estate in Hackney , but where she , with a community group , had planned the garden from scratch and had made a small desert blossom like a rose .
13 Wendy Almon went to pick up two-year-old Eva , but found she 'd been abducted
14 What a marvellous constitution she must have to remember that after all she 'd been through !
15 And after all she 'd been through .
16 She 'd been using these for years , ever since a practical demonstration by an art-school technician fired her to experiment with felting techniques .
17 But the niece was very bitter about it — I had to write a letter to her solicitors a year or so later because she 'd been bothering Angela long after the estate was settled . ’
18 He went on a while about the various tests but where he came out was that she 'd been dead for at least five days , and seven was perfectly possible .
19 ‘ If she 'd been wearing a helmet , she might have lived , ’ says Officer Carmine Menchel , who visited the scene later .
20 Jane reflected that if she 'd been enormous , with masses of stomach and bust up front , Lajos might have thought twice about bashing her .
21 When she said she 'd been going to visit her friend , there 'd been no friend .
22 It looked like she 'd been Christmas shopping .
23 I think she 'd been asleep . ’
24 It was probably a mercy that she 'd been sick .
25 If she 'd been more of a woman , he believed , she would have meekly accepted his word and left it at that .
26 She 'd been investigating one of her peculiar groups and she said there was about to be a break-through .
27 She 'd been married in that hat .
28 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 .
29 Dot wished she 'd been given a bed nearer one of the windows so she could see out , or at least by the door .
30 She remembered things from when she 'd been to school before .
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