Example sentences of "'d [be] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been annoying the Dasses . |
| 2 | Bobby Vinton 's ‘ Blue Velvet ’ is this week 's network chart number one ; he has n't had a hit since the nineteen sixties , and when he was told of his success in America , he thought he 'd been made the victim of a Jeremy Beadle style prank . |
| 3 | All the same , he wished he 'd paid a little more attention to what had gone on when he 'd been leaving the depot so that he could have spotted when they carried out that trick with the form he was supposed to have dropped . |
| 4 | They 're being sold by an enthusiast who 'd been collecting the models since he was a boy . |
| 5 | Last night , standing on the deck of Devlin 's ketch as they rapidly approached the island , she 'd been thinking the same thing . |
| 6 | 2 families had to leave their homes after they were terrorised by a mob , angry they 'd been helping the Police to catch the joyriders . |
| 7 | The debt counsellor who 'd been helping the Harrises said Dorend Ltd had agreed to wave interest of around £30,000 . |
| 8 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 9 | He spread the trousers carefully on the large deal table , put the towel with which he 'd been drying the luncheon dishes carefully on top of the faded tweed , smoothed it into place and began to poke out the creases with an old iron . |
| 10 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 11 | He felt drained , as if he 'd been drunk the night before . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | if I 'd been given the choice , erm you know if they 'd said you know okay you 're next , you going I 'd have said no thanks , send somebody else , but er |
| 14 | Since she had been working more or less at full stretch before she 'd been given the extra work to do , there was only one way she could fit more work into her day , and that was by working late at the office , then going home with a bulging briefcase . |
| 15 | She was just wondering if she 'd been given the wrong one when she realised that the door was n't locked . |
| 16 | Would you have voted in favour of the sale of the house if you 'd been given the chance . |
| 17 | ‘ This particular evening we 'd been to see the latest Lloyd Webber musical and I was high on the music , treading on air … ’ |
| 18 | and quite a lot of the nurses used to walk their nurses , I mean they 're er war trained and unarmed combat and they 're wardens , let's face it , they 're not nurses , and one of them was saying to me , oh we had a fellow in the other day , he 'd , he 'd a , fallen up the police stations steps I think erm , he said that he 'd been to see the do gooders , he had this interview |
| 19 | Eye to the crack in the door , Jezrael saw the girl 's own guilt palm the cuber as though she 'd been watching the security scanner all along . |
| 20 | They 'd been watching the site for some time . |
| 21 | They 'd been watching the premises for several months . |
| 22 | And er he did n't blame me one bit of doing that because we 'd been getting the run around . |
| 23 | He 'd been adjusting the driving mirror and he 'd only taken his eyes off the road for a moment . |
| 24 | I , I would like to think they 'd been supported the same as the boxing club , but after all the boxing club is for youths , and I think they 've got to look after the youths erm , try and find something for them to do , as much as erm , community |
| 25 | ‘ They 'd been raiding the school at the end of Dwyer Street . ’ |
| 26 | Everything in bilingual Canada was written in both English and French and I realized that since my arrival I 'd been reading the French quite easily . |
| 27 | Well , it had come about while he 'd been receiving the wet canvas treatment . |
| 28 | He chuckled to himself , put down the cup he 'd been drinking the water from , wiped his lips . |
| 29 | He 'd been counting the days . |
| 30 | ‘ But then you discovered how , for two years , I 'd been concealing the knowledge of your son from you , ’ Ashley broke in harshly , ‘ and telling me went out of the window . |