Example sentences of "he 'd [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | He 'd been off having fun too much . |
2 | He 'd been off drugs for six months when he died in that fire . ’ |
3 | He could n't believe what he 'd done , that he 'd been into Mrs Wright 's house , into her bedroom even , when she was out . |
4 | The year before he 'd been into the whole Absolute Beginners scene and everything around him had to date from the late ‘ fifties , early ‘ sixties . |
5 | He 'd been along all these paths before . |
6 | Unfortunately he 'd been beyond reason , and after hearing in detail from Paul what a fiasco the whole performance had been she was n't surprised . |
7 | He 'd been over the limit , they 'd said , when he 'd crashed his BMW , and there could have been no sympathy whatsoever for him from the relatives of the woman killed in the other car . |
8 | And there was a a a a lad who was about a couple of years older than me , he 'd be about twenty three , he 'd been through the War and er he was a real revolutionary , he was re and and he was very intelligent . |
9 | and erm I was feeling ill at the time and I , I wondered why because he 'd been through so much suffering , you know , it was a happy release . |
10 | he said he 'd been through recently , oh every time I 've been through Wolverhampton that ring road 's been awful the traffic like |
11 | It was an ignoble , unworthy thought , he knew , but he was — now , anyway — only human , and therefore prey to human weaknesses , whatever sort of superhuman he 'd been during the War . |
12 | Getting him out of bed in the mornings in time for school became a real problem for his family when he 'd been up most of the night with pencil and note book . |
13 | He 'd been on the binge of all time , wrecking cars , hitting her , almost breaking two of her fingers . |
14 | He was beginning to get a bit homesick since they 'd stopped travelling and he 'd been on his own . |
15 | So I suppose if he 'd been on the Road every day he 'd have won the Open ! |
16 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
17 | If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train … |
18 | And he 'd been on our committee for I think it was about about three years was that right ? |
19 | The notion of such international co-operation would have been unthinkable even at senior investigator level ; but here the arrangements had been made and he 'd been on a plane within a matter of hours . |
20 | ( Two summers ago , on holiday in Greece with a school pal he had since lost touch with , he 'd been on a small , crowded , ramshackle train heading out of Athens over a scrubby plain in blistering heat . |
21 | He 'd been on a management course from which he had returned to speak of God as ‘ the perfect chairman of our meetings . ’ |
22 | And he 'd he 'd been on the dole er I think two years , and he 's just started up a a building site . |
23 | He 'd been on the roads for days and they still retained their winter mire , despite the advent of finer spring weather . |
24 | However the assignment took a little bit longer than it er than if he 'd been on the other product range . |
25 | The Marquess of Blandford is back in prison tonight , charged with assualting two police officers who were trying to arrest him after he 'd been on the run for four days . |
26 | We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it . |
27 | One of the managers that come in and he 'd been on holiday for two weeks , but he knew ! |
28 | No , it would n't have surprised me if he 'd been at his easel while I was painting the town red ! |
29 | If he did n't understand something , he was reluctant to stand up and ask , instead he 'd worry it out himself , sometimes I reckoned he 'd been at it all night . |
30 | ‘ Well , I just thought he 'd been at the whisky even more than usual , and ignored him . |