Example sentences of "a [noun] he 'd be " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 2 | What a fool he 'd been ! |
| 3 | She said he was from Moila , and ever since he was a boy he 'd been a sort of con artist , and could get away with anything- ’ |
| 4 | He put aside a newspaper he 'd been going to read and jumped out of his cab . |
| 5 | ‘ I had a feeling he 'd been committed to an asylum . |
| 6 | The man who killed officer worker Anna McGurk has told a jury he 'd been having an affair with her before her death . |
| 7 | The winter of his second year of university he began to do some special research on the Gulf for a project he 'd been assigned . |
| 8 | Hagans threw down a statement he 'd been holding , and took three paces to the centre of the court before being brought to the floor and marched to the cells , to shouts from the public gallery . |
| 9 | It was the sixth time in a year he 'd been a victim of crime , but this time the culprits , two youths , had been arrested . |
| 10 | The Deputy Director of the SIS was a man you could pass in the street without noticing , an effect he 'd been careful to cultivate . |