Example sentences of "[noun sg] 'd be " in BNC.

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1 I wanted to dig him in the ribs and tell him that Mrs F was the last of twelve children in her family and her father 'd been a maintenance man on the railways .
2 ‘ When I was young , people used to call me up , messin' with me , tell me my father 'd been killed .
3 Captain 'd been at Combe Court for ages and ages I think , cos he knew everyone , even the very poorly ones like Glenda .
4 Opera Restor 'd is established as Britain 's leading touring company in this field .
5 They had enjoyed my Watering-Place , a collection of interlinked sketches about Tunbridge Wells , lately published ( 'We 'd been rather badly off for books ' ) , and they had tales of other writers .
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