Example sentences of "[noun pl] who 'd be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But when I got there I found I was in with kids who 'd been nicked for stealing or who 'd been on drugs or alcohol or glue , and girls who had been on the streets at 13 . |
| 2 | I was disillusioned with all the experts who 'd been predicting one thing or another ; they obviously did n't know any more than anybody else . |
| 3 | Braving the cameras and the columnists , and the experts who 'd been brought in to analyse every glance and nuance of their body language , they faced the world , and slowly worked at healing the rift between them . |
| 4 | Yes , it 's just a plaque and erm but The thing that erm I enjoyed on that occasion was meeting the other conservationists who 'd been called up . |
| 5 | Fifty Russian orphans who 'd been having the holiday of a lifetime in Britain have returned home … many of them in tears . |
| 6 | Fifty Russian orphans who 'd been having the holiday of a lifetime in Britain have returned home … many of them in tears . |
| 7 | There 'd been a master at Ravenswood , a man called Funny Stiles who 'd been given the sack because he 'd made boys presents of whistles and fountain-pens . |
| 8 | Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway played with phallic imagery , played sexy , played violent and played Robin Hood by robbing banks to help farmers who 'd been foreclosed by the banks . |
| 9 | The mess was almost empty except for an Education Corps captain who was also using the place as an hotel , and three unmarried young officers who 'd been playing tennis and should n't have been in the ante-room dressed like that . |
| 10 | The Western powers — you 'll recall the reports — were shamed by the plight of hundreds of thousands of Kurds who 'd been encouraged by Bush to rise up against Saddam and who 'd ended as refugees scattered like strewn rags across mountains on the Turkey-Iraq border . |
| 11 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 12 | Their bodies were discovered when friends who 'd been trying to contact one of the women became worried and called the police . |
| 13 | Marlin had been as solicitous as an erring husband since the attack , calling her from his office every hour or so , and several times suggesting that she might want to talk with an analyst , or at very least with one of his many friends who 'd been assaulted or mugged on the streets of Manhattan . |
| 14 | Mr Lee stood firmly by the decisions that had been taken in collaboration with members of the RSSPCC , who had been involved from the beginning in the disclosure work with the eight W children who 'd been taken away then . |
| 15 | Many were crossed out , and she guessed they were men who 'd been killed or posted . |
| 16 | The fighting started among a group of men who 'd been playing pool . |
| 17 | Dot knew from their voices that those two young men who 'd been working in the fields must be prisoners . |
| 18 | You know both sides were very happy you know it was up with the company or down with the company you know , and I think certainly the younger lads sort of saw it as an infringement upon their future , you know we 've all got mortgages and the o older men who 'd been working since the quarry started you know were gon na see a drop in their standard of living , so I think you know people were getting a bit upset you know that a n a new fella h a new face had come in , and all of a sudden you know changes were being made that were gon na hurt everybody financially . |
| 19 | All the better that the operation rehabilitated the credibility of the police who 'd been having a bad press in the early years of the decade . |
| 20 | I bus-hopped back to Hackney , feeling a bit of a prune sitting there in my suit in between a gaggle of wrinklies who 'd been blowing their pensions down the supermarket . |
| 21 | When we left the headman 's house we were joined by a group of young boys who 'd been waiting outside with their dogs , and by other men from houses that we passed along the way . |
| 22 | Tommaso had not come back at Ascension , though some others who 'd been called to military service at the same time walked into town one afternoon . |
| 23 | She had seen pictures in the newspaper that Mrs Parvis had delivered every day of men and women who 'd been kept locked up in a camp till the Americans came and found them . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She sat back , munching , face red but eyes twinkling , and with those eyes indicated the two women who 'd been looking at us ; then she raised one finger and pointed first at me , then at her . |
| 26 | At the end of our corridor is the playroom where the children not yet in school spend their days with playworkers — unemployed women who 'd been signing on the dole before getting these " work experience scheme " jobs funded by the Manpower Services Commission . |
| 27 | They were formed at the same time as the Quakers , actually , in sixteen fifty-two , and the main erm belief of the group was that John Reeve and his cousin Ludowick Muddleton were the two prophets who 'd been chosen by God as the last witnesses in the Book of Revelation . |
| 28 | I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub . |
| 29 | His parents were found dead at their house by firemen who 'd been called to their cottage in Tetbury . |
| 30 | He was run over by thieves who 'd been trying to steel aluminimum worth less than two hundred pounds . |